At the end of World War I, on 16.10.1918, the Emperor of Austria, Charles I, issued a manifesto Germ. Völkermanifest — „To My Faithful Austrian Subjects” — announcing the transformation of Austria–Hungary into a federal state. Not only did it not prevent the disintegration of the Empire, but it actually accelerated it. The issue of the imperial province and crown land, Germ. Königreich Galizien und Lodomerien (Eng. Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria), became a burning one, which turned into an open Polish–Ukrainian conflict. The first to attack were the Ukrainians — slightly outnumbering people of Polish nationality, especially in the villages, while in the cities the Poles significantly outnumbered them — who already on 01.11.1918 announced the establishment of the West Ukrainian People's Republic ZUNR and at the same time attacked the capital of Eastern Galicia, Lviv. The Polish–Ukrainian war 1918‐1919 began.

The Ukrainians failed to capture Lviv, the siege of the city began, and the front of the Polish–Ukrainian battles ran more or less along the line Sambir–Lviv–Belz–Volodymyr‐Volynskyi. His parish village found itself in the area controlled by the ZUNR and its armed wing, the Ukrainian Galician Army UHA.

Kidnapped by Ukrainians from the vicariate — probably in connection with the sermon delivered that day (19.04.1919 was Holy Saturday), in which spoke, „Poland will rise again. The keys to Poland: Kraków, Warszawa and Lviv are already in our hands”.

Taken outside the town.

There, brutally murdered by the local Ukrainian mayor.

Less than a month later, on 14.05.1919, the Polish offensive began on the entire Polish–Ukrainian front under the command of General Joseph Haller. The offensive was successful. In the words of its commander, „under the powerful blow of [the soldiers'] chests the entire enemy line was broken and the enemy ring surrounding Lviv collapsed”. On 16.07.1919, Polish army units occupied Skalat. The fighting front moved c. 150 km to the east and south, to a line defined by the Zbruch and Dniester rivers.

According to some sources (and commemorative plaque in Warsaw) murdered in 1918.

If so it would had happened during Austro–Hungarian rule, but right after a Brześć treaty of 09.02.1918, signed by Germans and Austro–Hungarians with the short–lived so‐called Ukrainian People's Republic, The Austro–Hungarians agreed to create and autonomous crown land of East Galicia — Skalat was to be part of it — including Lviv and Przemyśl.

Easter that year was on 30.03.1918.