He contacted Arnold Janssen, founder of the Society of the Divine Word, a missionary congregation based in Steyl, Netherlands.

In March 1879, he and his confrere Johann Baptist von Anzer boarded a ship to Hong Kong, where they arrived five weeks later.

Freinademetz was based in Sai Kung Peninsula until 1880[6][7] and set up a chapel on the island of Yim Tin Tsai in 1879.

He returned to Daijiazhuang (Chinese: 戴家庄; pinyin: Dàijiāzhuāng, historically spelled "Taikia" or "Taichia"), Rencheng District, Jining, South Shandong, where he died from typhus.

[3] Freinademetz's spiritual writings were approved by theologians on 20 November 1940, and his cause was formally opened on 22 June 1951, granting him the title of Servant of God.