He is mentioned for the first time in the Memorabilia of the Monastery of St. Nicholas in Bijelo Polje. The notes from 1680 and 1692 describe him as a great lover of literature. In 1689, crushed by grief for having been expelled from his Eparchy, whose seat was in the Church of St. Nicholas in Niš, he wrote on the margin of a book in the Cetinje Monastery: