 The landowner Mas family has been for centuries related to Osona.Teodoro's great-grandfather, (1774-1816), distinguished himself commanding anti-French insurgency during the Peninsular War.However, he is better known as husband of Joaquina de Verduna, Teodoro's great-grandmother; already a widow, in 1825 she founded the Carmelite charity order and was declared saint in 1959.