Although his predictions were sometimes inaccurate, Antoine was then regarded as a prophet by his followers, and some of them said it could perform supernatural apparitions; for his part, Antoine said nothing about the possible truthfulness of these phenomena. Named "The Father" by his followers, Antoine died — "disembodied" in Antoinist doctrine — on 25 June 1912 as the result of an attack of stroke. Then there were rumors that he would resurrect on the third day, but Debouxhtay believed that they emanated from "jesters" and that Antoinists did not believe this. The procession which took place at his funeral on 30 June 1912 was a great event in Jemeppe, and on this occasion, 100,000 faithful came to pray over his body. Subsequently, Antoinists were allowed to move the body, initially in the pauper's grave, to the town cemetery. In 1920, Antoine's widow asked the country's Queen to allow her to carry the body in the temple garden of Jemeppe where a chapel would be erected, but this request failed.