 The day after his death, a funeral procession wound through all the main roads of Panaji and ended in a secluded corner of St. Inez cemetery where his body was laid to rest without any funeral rites.In 1927, his bones were collected by his friends and admirers, placed in a lead box and reburied, under a marble slab with the inscription ", " (In memory of priest Antonio Francisco Xavier Alvares, who was very humanitarian missionary and a great patriot) and the largest cross in the cemetery.In 1967, Metropolitan Mathews Mar Athanasios, of the Outside Kerala diocese inquired and found the grave during his visit to Goa.