 She was shot by the Spanish on 11 May 1822.She is considered a Peruvian heroine, and oral tradition has created several myths about her.It is said that General Carratala, in an attempt to persuade her to talk, ordered soldiers to burn down her home where her daughters lived, but that they were saved because local people warned them to escape; that she paused outside the church of Santo Domingo, on the way to her execution, to kneel and pray to the Virgin Mary; and that after her execution a priest claimed her body and buried it in consecrated ground at the church of La Merced.