The Revelations of Our Lady of Good Success of Quito, Ecuador
At the end of the 16th century, the Blessed Virgin Mary appeared to a Conceptionist nun in Quito, Ecuador, under the title of Our Lady of Good Success. The nun she appeared to was called Mother Mariana de Jesus Torres.
Mother Mariana was a Spanish Conceptionist sister who traveled from her country to the New World to help to found the Royal Convent. Favored with many singular gifts from heaven, this chosen soul was given to know many future events, especially the grievous situation of the Church in the 20th century.
Our Lady told her that in our lamentable times, heresies would abound, the corruption of manners and customs would be almost complete, and the light of the Faith nearly extinguished. To atone for the many profanations, blasphemies, and abuses and to hasten the day of the triumphant restoration, this 17th century sister was asked to become an expiatory victim for our times. Thus, in a special way, the vocation of Mother Mariana links her to the crisis in the Church and society that few would deny that we are witnessing today.
Help Spread the Devotion to Our Lady of Good Success
Our Lady of Good Success promised “consolation and preservation to those faithful souls” who have recourse to her under this invocation and who would foster this devotion.
Devotion to Our Lady of Good Success has been approved and encouraged by the Church for the Ecuadorian faithful since the 17th century.
The Novena to Our Lady of Good Success
*Hail Mary Most Holy, Beloved Daughter of God the Father
Through the intercession of Mother Mariana de Jesus Torres, grant thy good success to this request (name request) … Our Father, Hail Mary, Glory be… Saint Gabriel, pray for us.
*Hail Mary Most Holy, Most Faithful Spouse of the Holy Ghost
Through the intercession of Mother Mariana de Jesus Torres, grant thy good success to this request (name request) … Our Father, Hail Mary, Glory be… Saint Raphael, pray for us.
*Hail Mary Most Holy, Temple and Sacrarium of the Most Holy Trinity
St. Michael, St. Gabriel, St. Raphael, pray for us.
Our Lady of Good Success, thou who art the all-powerful intercessor before the Most Holy Trinity, deign to hear and answer my request—so long as it contributes to the salvation of my soul and the glory and exaltation of Holy Mother Church.
Hail holy Queen…
*In the apparitions to Mother Mariana de Jesus Torres, St. Gabriel, St. Michael and St. Raphael- addressed the Blessed Virgin Mary with the first three salutations, and then intoned the last salutation in unison.
