He was born in Koniemłoty near Staszów, as the youngest of six children to Szczepan and Waleria. After finishing elementary school he attended high school in Staszów. After graduating he entered the seminary. He was ordained May 30, 1954. He was vicar in the parishes of: Szydłowiec, Żarnów, Koprzywnica, Mirzec, Kunów and Nowa Słupia. From 26 August 1961 he was the pastor of the parish Lady of Czestochowa in Pelagowie near Radom.
He was under constant observation of the surveillance officers and secret collaborators of Służba Bezpieczeństwa, the PRP's Secret Police.
During the June 1976 protests he supported the strikers at Metal Works "Bowman" in Radom. He was also at the Holy Trinity Church in Radom blessing protesting workers during demonstrations. After the brutal suppression of the protesters by the troops he prayed together with the faithful for the beaten, arrested and fired workers. In his sermons he demanded respect for the human being, and denounced falsehood and injustice.
He was subjected to repression by the communist authorities. On several occasions, was brutally beaten by officers of the Służba Bezpieczeństwa. According to Jan Jozef Lipski, a cleaning woman found him beaten unconscious in his own apartment. She told the Regional Psychiatric Hospital Health Care in Krychnowice, but he was declared dead on arrival.[1]
The communist authorities banned the priest from being buried in the cemetery of Radom. His funeral, held on 20 August 1976, turned into a patriotic manifestation. He is buried in Koniemłoty.
In 1990, the president of Poland in exile, Ryszard Kaczorowski, posthumously honored him with Cross of Merit with Swords for "sacrifice of life in the struggle with the Communists for an independent Poland."
On 3 May 2009 he was posthumously awarded by President Lech Kaczyński's Commander's Cross with Star of the Order of Polonia Restituta.[2]
