They condemned him to death, but King Albert I commuted his sentence to life imprisonment and he died in prison in 1951.
M'padi was condemned in August 1949 in Mindouli and handed over to the Belgian authorities.
However, the most powerful of these Congolese religious movements was Matswanism, founded by André Matswa "Grenard", an old tirailleur sergeant and public service accountant in the department of Seine.
He created the Amicale des Originaires de l'A.E.F., a mutual aid society for people from French Equatorial Africa in 1926 and, on his return to Africa he more or less openly criticised the colonial regime during a meeting with his followers.
At the end of the 1950s, the ever-more intense conflict between the Matswanists and the colonial authorities had become entangled with the process of political transition which led, in 1960, to independence.After independence, Congolese politicians of many ideological shades attempted to capitalize on Matsoua's popularity, including Presidents Abbé Fulbert Youlou, Alphonse Massamba-Débat and Denis Sassou-Nguesso, as well as the insurgent leader Bernard Kolélas.