After his murder, Friar Pedro de Corpa’s head was cut off and placed on a pike at the village landing. After lying in the sun for several days, his body was buried in the woods and never recovered. Before Canzo's expedition left the site of Tolomato on November 2, there were found in the neighboring woods an altar stone for use in the celebration of Mass, and a statue of San Antonio de Padua. These objects were given into the custody of Fray Blas de Montes.

Oré reports that the body of Friar Francisco de Veráscola was buried by the war party immediately after he was killed. There is no record that the body was ever found.

The bodies of Friars Blas Rodríguez de Cuacos, Miguel de Añon, and Antonio de Badajoz were located in shallow graves, but they were not transported to St. Augustine because of their state of decay. All three corpses were subsequently reburied where they had been found. Friar Blas’s skull had been shattered in three or four places. The bodies of Friars Miguel and Antonio had been mutilated: their arms and legs had been broken in four places, and their legs tied together. Close to one of the graves, half-buried in the ground, was the severed head of Friar Miguel, along with some small bones. These were taken to St. Augustine and transferred to the custody of Montes. Around six years later – in 1603, as Oré implies, or in 1605, as Barcia in his Ensayo Cronológico explicitly says – the Spaniards exhumed the two bodies from St. Catherines and brought them to St. Augustine.

Where are the remains now?

– From REPORTATIO SUPER MARTYRIO SERVORUM DEi PETRI DE CORPA ET SOCIORUM EJUS ANNO DOMINI 1597 IN FLORIDA OCCISORUM (Editio Tertia "Positionis", 7 Maii 2002)

Where precisely in the mission compound these relics of the Servants of God were kept has not been ascertained. Significant modifications in the organization of the convento and in the life of the friars must have been introduced when, in 1606, the mission status was changed to that of a custody, implying a more stabilized form of community life and a more formal system of governance. An even more significant development took place after 1612, when the General Chapter of the Franciscan Order, held in Rome, decreed that the Custody of Santa Elena should be elevated to the status of a province under the same title. At that time, the principal convento in La Florida, "La Concepción" (sometimes also called "San Francisco"), became the house of novitiate. As such, it would have been a place of special recollection and prayer, a friary for the training and inspiration of novices.

Presumably the relics of the Servants of God kept there would have received particular attention and been the object of singular devotion in the religious house which was at once the head and the heart of the first province of the Franciscan order established in the territory of the future United States of America.

No record is known to exist which would indicate where within the area of the friary compound these precious relics of the martyrs were kept. The manner of their custody would be a determining factor – perhaps the single most important factor – in locating these relics today. Theoretically there are two possibilities of what took place. The first possibility – the less likely, it would seem – is that the bones were interred in the camposanto. In that case it is less probable– though not impossible – that the departing friars in 1763 would have disinterred the relics in order to transport them to the friars' place of refuge in Cuba. Should this, the less likely possibility, be the course that was actually followed, then the chances of discovering and unearthing the bones are not very real. For seemingly, the ancient cemetery is now, perhaps irreversibly, part of the macadamized parking lot for the Florida State Barracks which occupies the old Franciscan site.

The second possibility – and the one which would seem to offer the greater probability that these relics of the martyred friars might yet be discovered – is that the religious community at the headquarters of the Province of Santa Elena had determined to keep them above ground. In the area of the church or convento, in some sort of movable receptacle, such as a strongbox, the relics might have been kept with reverence and some outward display of honor and respect. In such a case, when in 1763, with the ceding of Spain's rights in La Florida to Britain, the friars definitively left San Agustin, they could readily have taken the box with them to Cuba.

If the bones were in fact kept in a sort of casket above ground – and we do not know whether they were or not – the receptacle could quite conveniently have been taken to Cuba by the departing friars. A search there for the relics remains a possibility. The Cause is interested in pursuing the search further and has taken initial steps toward investigating the matter.