Education
He finished basic education in the Fojnica monastery of the Franciscan Province of Bosna Srebrena, entered the novitiate on November 4, 1839, took his first vows on the same day next year.
He finished basic education in the Fojnica monastery of the Franciscan Province of Bosna Srebrena, entered the novitiate on November 4, 1839, took his first vows on the same day next year.
After studying philosophy and theology for five years, he was ordained priest and became a parish vicar in the parish of Sokoline. There he was imprisoned by Turkish authorities and suffered a great deal. He also served as parish vicar in the parishes of Ivanjska (near Banja Luka), Bosanska Gradiška, and Dolac.
He also served as parish priest in Dobretići, where, together with the parish faithful, he built a church consecrated to Saint Anthony of Padua.
During his ministry as the parish priest of Bučići, he encouraged his parishioners to build a church. In memory of him, once a month, on the Tuesday that comes after a New Moon, a Mass is celebrated on the Komarda Cemetery in Bučići where he was buried.
The people think of him as a saint, and often come to pray at his tomb.
