midday in May
Doña 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 . Doña 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 -LSB- 40 -RSB- in Taal , distributed alms to the poor , and danced at midday in May in the procession of the Virgin of Turumba -LSB- 41 -RSB- 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 , Doña Pia soon recognized the signs of approaching motherhood .