Our Lady of Good Success

Our Lady of Good Success, Marian holy cards collection, ML.031 Box 16, circa 1675-2018. Marian Library, University of Dayton Libraries, Dayton, Ohio.

Country

Ecuador

Description

In 1952, five Sisters traveled from Spain to Quito, Ecuador, in hope to start the first convent in Ecuador. One of the five sisters was Mariana de Jesus Torres, the niece of the Mother Superior of the Conceptionist order to which they belonged. On February 2nd of that year Mother Mariana had been praying for a long time, and during her prayer she heard a voice of a woman. Mother Mariana then saw the Blessed Virgin Mary, who said, “I am Mary of Good Success, the Queen of Heaven and Earth… As His Mother, I carry (the Child Jesus) here, in my left arm, so that together we might restrain the hand of Divine Justice, which is always so ready to chastise this unfortunate and criminal world.”

Our Lady of Good Success then proceeded to put the Child Jesus in Mother Mariana’s arms. This would not be the last time that Our Lady of Good Success would appear to Mother Mariana. On January 16th, 1599, Our Lady of Good Success demanded from Mother Mariana that a statue be made that depicts her as she appeared to her.  Mother Mariana then proceeded to measure her so that the statue could be accurate. It took Mother Mariana a while to finally get the statue sculpted because she was afraid that people would not believe her story and would make her convent look bad. The statue was eventually sculpted by Francisco del Castillo in 1610 and it remains in the Convent’s church to this day.

References:

1. Carota, Peter. “Our Lady Of Good Success – Prophecies For Our Times.” Traditional Catholic Priest. September 17, 2015.

2. “Our Lady of Good Success.“ Wikipedia. February 25, 2018.

Researched by Michael H. Meade

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