Dying, he had his preference.

It seems to be one that is innate in the savage mind.  An Ojibbeway was apparently pleased with the new religion that was proffered to him, and thought of being baptized, but, dreaming that he went up to a fair prairie covered with numerous trails of white men, without the print of a single moccasin, was cured of his desire.  The Frisian Radbod also expressed his disgust at the converting methods of Charles the Hammer.  “He had already immersed one of his royal legs in the baptismal font, when a thought struck him.  ‘Where are my dead forefathers at present?’ he said, turning suddenly upon Bishop Wolfran.  ’In hell, with all other unbelievers,’ was the imprudent answer.  ‘Mighty well!’ replied Radbod, removing his leg; ’then will I rather feast with my ancestors in the halls of Woden than dwell with your little starveling band of Christians in heaven.’"[S] And if he, too, died a heathen, it is certain that one continued to live in Bishop Wolfran.  For it is men of his narrow and brutal theology who are not yet converted to Christianity, but who get a dispensation to disgust men with that glorious name.

[Footnote S:  Motley’s Dutch Republic, Vol.  I. p. 20.]

So it went on at Hayti.  Catholic fetiches vied with the native ones for ascendency.  Ecclesiastics were charged with the management of secular as well as spiritual matters, for it was the genius of Spain to govern by the priest.  A very few of them understood men, and had a head for affairs; of these, some were pure, the rest were base, and readily fraternized with the soldiers and politicians in their selfish policy.  A bad and cruel theology, a narrow priestly mind, became the instruments of lust and murder.

Guarionex was the chief cacique of a province which comprised the middle part of the Vega Real.  His conversion was undertaken by Friar Roman, a St. Jeromite, and Joan Borognon, a Franciscan.  The cacique listened attentively to their instructions, but the natives, already alienated by the excesses of the Spaniards, would neither attend mass nor be catechized, except upon compulsion.  It was the policy of Guarionex to offer no resistance to the addresses of the priests.  But an outrage committed upon his wife hindered the progress of religion in his province.  He dashed the cross to the ground in fury, and scattered the utensils.  The affrighted priests fled, leaving behind a chapel with some pictures which they had instructed the converts to regard in offering up their prayers.  Guarionex buried all the pictures, and said over them, instead of a Pater, “Now you will begin to bear fruit!” Friar Roman says that a catechumen, digging his agis (sweet pepper) in that field, found two or three of them grown together in the shape of a cross.  The miracle and the outrage were reported at once, and the six natives who had buried the pictures at the command of Guarionex were burnt alive!  This was the first auto-da-fe on Haytian soil.