Juan Mazien de Sotomayor, O.P., missionary priest to the Nepuyo villages of Cuara, Tacarigua and Arouca.
One member of the governor's party managed to escape the attackers and returned to San Jose where he raised the alarm.
The twenty-two identified as ringleaders were hanged on 14 January 1700 at San José de Oruña, the capital of the colony,[2] and their dismembered bodies displayed.
Mateo de Anguiano in 1704, the ground was still wet with fresh blood, and the bodies of the monks were uncorrupted, bleeding from their wounds when they were moved.
In addition to physical evidence he cited Amerindian traditions that on Holy Thursday and Good Friday every year, "remarkable things happened" and some claimed to have heard voices, talking and singing, a priest saying Mass and people praying.