He showed his unusual passions as a child. He was mainly interested in history and natural sciences. He wanted to develop his passions, and as he came from a peasant family, he decided to join a convent. He started studying with SVD priests - let us mention that both the order and the school exist in Rybnik to this day - and it was with them that he connected his whole life. The Order was powered by very enlightened people. They were trained to travel to distant lands, and their education went far beyond theological studies.

As a young man, during the First World War, he became interested in the history of the borderlands of the former Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth. He served on the Eastern Front, e.g. in Vilnius, for which he received the Prussian Iron Cross. However, Polish matters were the most important for him. Not surprisingly, he quickly became involved with the Polish movement in the plebiscite area in the former Prussian Upper Silesia.

And how did it happen that he became involved with Rybnik? All because of the post-war division of Upper Silesia between the German state and the Polish state. Rybnik, as the westernmost border town, seemed to Father Drobny the best place to follow his vocation.

In Rybnik he perfectly developed his passions. He started collecting antiques. He established contacts with missionaries from around the world, thanks to which he received ethnographic artifacts from Africa, the Far East, Australia and Oceania. Local residents began to entrust him with valuable souvenirs from Upper Silesia. Soon, the collection grew so large that the Rybnik monastery became an informal museum. And known all over the country! All thanks to over ten thousand unique items, the oldest of which date back to the Middle Ages. Such famous Poles as the writer Gustaw Morcinek, the traveler Stanisław Bełza and Zofia Kossak-Szczucka - a famous novelist - used to come here.