Dona Pia Alba was not satisfied with buying and selling sugar, indigo, and coffee, but wished to plant and reap, so the newly-married couple bought land in San Diego.

From this time dated their friendship with Padre Damoso and with Don Rafael Ibarra, the richest capitalist of the town.
The lack of an heir in the first six years of their wedded life made of that eagerness to accumulate riches almost a censurable ambition.

Dona Pia was comely, strong, and healthy, yet it was in vain that she offered novenas and at the advice of the devout women of San Diego made a pilgrimage to the Virgin of Kaysaysay [40] in Taal, distributed alms to the poor, and danced at midday in May in the procession of the Virgin of Turumba [41] in Pakil.

But it was all with no result until Fray Damaso advised her to go to Obando to dance in the fiesta of St.Pascual Bailon and ask him for a son.

Now it is well known that there is in Obando a trinity which grants sons or daughters according to request--Our Lady of Salambaw, St.Clara, and St.Pascual.Thanks to this wise advice, Dona Pia soon recognized the signs of approaching motherhood.