After World War I, he met Bishop Nikolaj Velimirović of Žiča who exerted a great influence on him to devote himself to the Church.
After the Bogomoltsy Council in Vrnjačka Banja, he left the diplomatic service in Paris and came to Ohrid, and then Bitolj where he served with Bishop Nikolaj.
He was silent, modest, calm and transparent; he predicted the Nazi bombing of Belgrade and the suffering of the Serbian people.
[7] He was arrested in 1945 in Velika Drenova by the Yugoslav Communist authorities, who subjected him to torture with the intention of renouncing his "conservative religious beliefs".
[8] In 1946 he brought 8,000 copies of the Lord's Prayer from Belgrade, which he distributed to passengers at the train station in Požarevac, for which the Communists beat him to death.
In December 2014 with the blessing of Bishop Ignatije Midić of Braničevo, his grave was opened and his relics were found whole and incorruptible.