 On 15 August 1674 he distributed bread to the poor; it was deemed a miracle that the bread in the basket never depleted.He did not want to be recognized for this so he retreated into the mountains of Garfagana as a hermit, though each dawn he went to the shrine of San Pellegrino to celebrate Mass.In 1674 he was sent to Argigliano and Pistoia and then in 1675 was sent as the Master of Novices to Florence for eighteen months, then transferred to Carniola as a pastor from December 1676 to October 1677; ten months later in 1677 he was sent to Siena.