It was her who gave Jose Rizal her personal copy of Spanish bible while Rizal was imprisoned in Fort Santiago. Her bible was among the items cherished by Rizal and was included in his memorabilia at the Fort Santiago museum. Incidentally, Don Ricardo and Doņa Paz owned a large beautiful ancestral house on Padre Faura, Paco, Metro Manila that was featured in the book The Filipino Heritage: A Making of the Nation, vol. 10, (1977). Doņa Maria Paz was a patroness of arts and some of her personal collections of Oriental ceramics were either donated or presently housed in the Ayala Museum, Makati, Metro Manila.
From the original three Mascuņana brothers and sister brought forth six generations of descendants of the Mascuņana scattered today all over the country and abroad.
