In an era marked by rapid moral shifts, confusion within the Church, and widespread cultural decay, many faithful Catholics turn to approved Marian apparitions for guidance and reassurance. Among these, the revelations given to Venerable Mother Mariana de Jesús Torres in Quito, Ecuador, under the title Our Lady of Good Success (also known as Our Lady of the Good Event), stand out for their striking specificity about future crises—particularly those unfolding from the late 19th century through the 20th century and beyond.

These apparitions, occurring between 1594 and 1634, have a long history of local ecclesiastical approval in Ecuador. The miraculous statue of Our Lady, sculpted under her direct instructions and miraculously completed, was blessed and enthroned in the Convent of the Immaculate Conception in 1611 by the local bishop. Devotion has continued uninterrupted for centuries, culminating in a papal-approved canonical coronation in 1991 under Pope John Paul II, declaring her Queen of Quito and the convent church a Marian sanctuary. While private revelations are not obligatory for belief, this devotion enjoys solid recognition and offers profound insights relevant to our libertarian Catholic perspective—one that values personal virtue, resistance to statist overreach, and fidelity to timeless truths amid modern encroachments on freedom and family.

The Humble Recipient: Mother Mariana de Jesús Torres

Mother Mariana (1563–1635), a Spanish Conceptionist nun who traveled to the New World, lived a life of extraordinary penance and sanctity. She endured severe trials, including mystical sufferings for souls and the Church. Our Lady appeared to her multiple times, often with the Child Jesus, entrusting her with messages not primarily for her era but for distant future generations. Our Lady foretold that devotion to her under this title would remain hidden until the 20th century, when it would serve as a “sustenance and safeguard of the Faith” amid widespread corruption.

Key Prophecies Foretelling 20th-Century Crises

Our Lady’s messages paint a sobering picture of moral and spiritual decline, pinpointing the period “from the end of the 19th century and shortly after the middle of the 20th century” as a time of intense trial. She warned:

• Satan’s near-total dominion through Masonic sects, leading to a “total corruption of customs.” Passions would erupt unchecked, with children especially targeted to perpetuate immorality.
• Attacks on the family and marriage: Iniquitous laws would profane matrimony—the symbol of Christ’s union with His Church—promoting easy divorce, sinful unions, and the birth of illegitimate children outside the Church’s blessing.
• Profanation of the sacraments: Baptism and Confirmation would become difficult to receive; Extreme Unction neglected; Holy Orders ridiculed, with priests persecuted, corrupted, or causing scandal; the Eucharist and Penance abused or abandoned.
• Moral decay in society: Unbridled luxury, loss of modesty (especially among women), frivolity leading countless souls astray, and innocence nearly impossible to find in children. Education would become secularized, contributing to fewer vocations and widespread loss of faith.
• Crisis within the Church: Heresies propagated even among the hierarchy; unfaithful religious turning against the Church; the light of Faith nearly extinguished; scandals among clergy fueling hatred toward all priests. She described a time when “all will seem lost,” with silence from those who should defend truth.

These prophecies align eerily with events many observe in the 20th century: the rise of secular ideologies, breakdown of traditional family structures through no-fault divorce and related policies, liturgical and doctrinal confusions post-Vatican II, clergy scandals, and declining sacramental practice, all of which can be traced to the communist infiltration into the Church during that time.

Hope Amid the Darkness: The Promise of Restoration

Importantly, Our Lady did not leave her children in despair. She promised a great restoration when evil appeared triumphant: “Then will the Church, joyful and triumphant like a young girl, reawaken and be comfortably cradled in the arms of my most dear and elect son of those times.” She foretold her ultimate victory, dethroning Satan in a “marvelous” way through her intervention. This echoes Fatima’s assurance that “in the end, my Immaculate Heart will triumph.”

She also predicted specific fulfillments already realized, such as the dogmas of the Immaculate Conception and papal infallibility (under Pius IX), a pope imprisoned in the Vatican (Pius IX during Italian unification), and a truly Catholic president in Ecuador (Gabriel García Moreno, who consecrated the nation to the Sacred Heart before his martyrdom by Freemasons in 1875).

In our times, when many feel the weight of cultural and ecclesiastical challenges, devotion to Our Lady of Good Success invites hope. She who promised to be the “sustenance” of faith in dark hours remains a powerful intercessor. As she told Mother Mariana: invoke her under this title, and she will grant miracles—spiritual and temporal—for those who trust in her maternal care.May we heed her warnings, embrace her promises, and work toward the restoration she foretold—one soul, one family, one nation at a time.