Education
Avsec attended secondary school in Novo Mesto. He studied theology in Ljubljana and was ordained in 1888. In the locations where he served, he drew plans of the churches, and studied the history of the buildings and conservation issues.
Avsec attended secondary school in Novo Mesto. He studied theology in Ljubljana and was ordained in 1888. In the locations where he served, he drew plans of the churches, and studied the history of the buildings and conservation issues.
After his ordination he served as a curate in various locations, and then starting in 1899 as a parish priest in Velike Brusnice, from 1900 to 1919 in Podkum, and then until his death in Lesce. He developed an interest in church art as a student. In 1904 he was named an honorary conservation expert for the Vienna Central Commission for the Preservation of Monuments (K K Zentralkommission für Denkmalpflege).
In 1913 he became a trustee of the Provincial Conservation Office for Carniola and later for the Historical Monuments Office for Slovenia.
The valuable material he collected is kept at the Archepiscopal Archives of Ljubljana and the Institute for the Protection of Cultural Heritage of Slovenia.