 Eventually most on the island converted to Catholicism.Musumusu himself converted and as he lay dying expressed the desire that he be buried outside the church at Poi so that those who came to revere Peter Chanel in the Church would walk over his grave to get to it.As a kind of penitence a special action song and dance, known as the eke, was created by the people of Futuna shortly after Chanel's death.