On 15 July1583 the group met at the church of Orlim, and hiked to Cuncolim to erect a cross and choose land for a new church.
Local anti-Christian pagans, seeing the unarmed Christians, gathered their weapons and marched on them.
One of the parishioners, a Portuguese emigre named Gonçalo Rodrigues, carried a firearm, but Father Alphonsus Pacheco stopped him from using it.
The pagans then fell upon them, and killed them all without mercy.