Enlightened by faith, the path prudence points out to us may not always look wise to the rest of the world. St. Pedro Calungsod is a great example. At the age of fourteen, he was invited to accompany the missionary priests who trained him and to hand on the faith to others. He traveled to Guam, where he immediately began helping spread the gospel. One day conflict arose with a chief who didn’t want the Christian missionaries in his village; he burst in on the missionaries, swearing to kill them. Witnesses who knew Pedro well said he could have bested the chief in hand-to-hand conflict or successfully run for his life. Instead, Pedro stood by the priest who was with him, dodging spear after spear, until the enraged chief finally impaled him through the heart. Smart, athletic, talented, and faith-filled, seventeen-year old Pedro had much to live for. Instead, listening to the wisdom of God, he chose to lay down his life for what He believed in.