[citation needed] His first sermon, delivered with the ardor of a young and virile youth, was directed against the oppressive rule of Poland by the Russian Czar and the German Emperor.

[citation needed] However, his friends spirited him away and he was taken aboard a ship bound for America to escape exile to Siberia that would have followed his arrest.

[citation needed] In America, he first served as a professor in the Roman Catholic Seminary at Orchard Lake, Michigan.

[citation needed] But in 1896, two years after his arrival in the United States, he renounced his vows as a Roman Catholic priest.

He was the vice-president of the First General Synod of the Polish National Catholic Church and an active co-worker of Bishop Francis Hodur[citation needed].

[3] Gawrychowski died on February 1, 1934,[1] in the rectory of Holy Mother of the Rosary Parish, 26 Bell Street, Chicopee[citation needed].