At 36, he entered the Order of Theatines where he took the name Andrew. Regularly, he went on missions by foot within the region; going to the towns and hamlets of Campania to preach and meet with anyone who needed him. One night when he and a friend were returning from the countryside, there was a downpour that quenched the lamp he was carrying that had guided their steps. They could have been lost in the dark, but rays of light miraculously shone from Andrew's body and he became like a walking flashlight that lit their way home. Multitudes of people came to him and sought his judgment; he was renowned for his advice, and he was especially good at helping people with problematic issues of conscience, moral difficulties and prickly matters of discernment. A grander miracle still happened when an attempt was made on his life; he was set upon by men who sliced him with swords. But he survived as though his skin had never been stabbed.
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