then after, he conducted his services in areas around negombo, colombo, and kalutara from february, 1709. in the same year, he converted more than 1300 to catholic. first months of 1710, he stayed at kandy. while he was servicing between sitawaka and colombo, he was tortured by dutch, who were controlling the coastline of sri lanka. because of the extreme illness of st. fr. joseph vaz, he came back to kandy. there he gave him extreme unction and did his funeral.