According to Telesforo Canseco(a pro-friar chronicler),who was also detained in Buenavista,the priests suffered maltreatment at the hands of the revolutionists;.When he and the priests were transferred in San Francisco de Malabon (the capital of Magdiwang Council),he heard that the priests were tortured by the Bonifacio brothers.
May pitong buwan bago ang malakas na lindol, nang ika-24 ng Enero 1863, sa simbahan ng Tondo, ipinag-isang dibdib ng presbiterong si P.Saturnino Buntan sina Santiago Bonifacio at Catalina de Castro . Ang naging saksi sa kasal ay sina Don Severino Ampil at Donya Patricia Trinidad.