 The embassy continued to Veracruz and Sanlucar de Barrameda, Seville, and Madrid.Luis had the Japanese receive baptism in Madrid, before accompanying them to an audience with Pope Paul V in Rome.The embassy was a product of ambitions of Sotelo to increase the spread of the church in Japan and of Date Masamune to provide more priests for the churches of his Christian subjects and to establish trade between Sendai and New Spain, and it had the approval of the shogun, Ieyasu Tokugawa.