Most accounts make it clear that he was expecting to find stores of gold in the town, while some claim he ransomed important members of the population.

He also burnt the shipping in the harbour and laid waste to much of the surrounding countryside, and seems to have found time to organise a play "to insult the pope".

[1] [ambiguous] The ease with which de Sores had captured the town prompted the Spanish crown to start a massive fortification programme.

On the morning of 15 July 1570, off Santa Cruz de La Palma, Canary Islands, he sighted the Portuguese merchant galleon São Tiago (also spelled Santiago), which was carrying Jesuits and colonists to Brazil.

Inácio de Azevedo was one of the Forty Martyrs of Brazil [fr], beatified by Pope Pius IX in 1854.