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Zbaszyn on the German border, as a young man Czechowic went to VilnBorn at ius in Lithuania where he worked for the famous Radziwill family. The well- meaning but naive Prince Radziwill sent the enthusiastic Czechowic, by this time a convert to the Brethren, on a wild goose mission to Geneva to try and convert Calvin and the Reformers! The poor man had to leave the city faster than he entered. Calvin was no man to be trifled with.

Later, it was on the advice of Czechowic that the Polish Brethren refused fellowship to the Italian emigre Fausto Sozzini because he attempted to join them without re-baptism.

From 1574 to his death in poverty and obscurity in 1613 Czechowic lived in the city of Lublin as ''an activist and writer''. Szczucki considers that Czechowic was largely instrumental in ''integrating the whole movement (of the Polish Brethren) as far as ideology and organisation was concerned.'' 241