 After six months illness spent at the home of his father, he was appointed vicar at Horodlo, member of the chapter of the collegiate church of the Zamojscy, and later transferred to Tomaszew, which was the scene of great military activity during the Polish uprising of 1863.As organizer, appointed by the secret Polish national Government, he provided the insurrectionists with military supplies.Compelled soon after to flee to Cracow, he found refuge with the Franciscan fathers in that city.