 After fifteen months of wandering he received his passport enabling him to leave for Paris in 1865.Here he fell under the influence of Peter Semenenko, Hieronim Kajsewicz, Aleksander Jelowicki, and Adam Mickiewicz, who dreamed of Poland's resurrection through the spiritual regeneration of the Poles.Going to Rome, he joined the newly founded Congregation of the Resurrection and soon after receiving the special blessing of Pope Pius IX set out for America (1866).