Our Lady of the Good Event (Portuguese: Nossa Senhora do Bom Sucesso; Spanish: Nuestra Señora del Buen Suceso) is a Catholic Marian title. The phrase "Good Event" refers to the Purification of Mary and the Presentation of Jesus.[1]
It is often mistranslated as "Our Lady of Good Success" due to the superficial similarity between the Spanish word "suceso" (meaning "event") and the English false friend "success".
In 1577 a new Conceptionists monastery was established in Quito, and Maria de Jesus y Taboada (Mariana's aunt) was appointed as the first abbess. Her fourteen year old niece Mariana and four sisters of the order accompanied her on the trip from Spain to Ecuador.[2] On 21 September, 1579, Mariana took perpetual vows and the religious name Mariana de Jesús.
Mother Maria de Jesus died on 4 October 1594 and Mariana succeeded her as abbess. Between 1594 and 1634 Mariana purportedly experienced apparitions of Our Lady of the Good Event.
| Honorific Prefix: | Servant of God |
| Mariana de Jesús Torres | |
| Honorific Suffix: | OIC |
| Titles: | Virgin |
| Death Date: | 16 January 1635 |
A Conceptionist sister named Mariana Francisca de Jesús Torres [it] claimed to have received Marian apparitions under this title from 2 February 1594 to 2 February 1634 in Quito.[2] In 1611, the local bishop, Salvador Ribera Avalos, gave his approval to the apparitions that had occurred up to that point.[3]
Torres died on 16 January 1635, shortly after the last alleged apparition. When her tomb was reopened in 1906, her body was found to be incorrupt. The Archdiocese of Quito opened her cause for canonization in 1984 and finished the diocesan stage of the process in 1997.
The apparition messages under the title of "Our Lady of the Good Success"purportedly predicted a "spiritual catastrophe" in the Catholic Church and in society, beginning "shortly after the middle of the twentieth century", including:[4]
On 8 December 1634, the apparition supposedly predicted that papal infallibility "will be declared a dogma of the Faith by the same Pope chosen to proclaim the dogma of the Mystery of My Immaculate Conception."[5] In 1854, Pope Pius IX defined the dogma of the Immaculate Conception, and in 1870, he declared the dogma of papal infallibility as defined by the First Vatican Council.
On 7 January 1991, the shrine was elevated of Archdiocesan Marian Sanctuary and under diocesan authority, granted the coronation of the statue. On February 2 of the same year, the statue was solemnly crowned as filial homage to the fervent devotion and rendering of thanks to the Mother of God on behalf of the religious community of the Convent and of the devotees of the city of Quito and of the whole archdiocese.[6]
See main article: Our Lady of the Good Event (Parañaque). The devotion in the Philippines, under a similar name, is separate from that of Quito.A statue of Mary under the title of "Our Lady of the Good Event of Parañaque" is enshrined in St. Andrew's Cathedral in Parañaque, Philippines. Mary is also patroness of the city under this title.