Our Lady of the Good Event

Our Lady of the Good Event is the English translation of the Spanish-language Catholic Marian title Nuestra Señora del Buen Suceso, 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."

Our Lady of the Good Event in Quito, Ecuador

Properly speaking, the phrase "Good Event" refers to the Purification of Mary and the Presentation of Jesus.[1]

16th-century church in Madrid
Church of Nuestra Señora del Buen Suceso, as it once existed in Madrid, Spain
Main article: Iglesia del Buen Suceso

The Obregonians were a small Roman Catholic congregation of men, founded in Madrid by Bernardino de Obregón, and dedicated to the care of the sick. Their motherhouse was adjacent to the Church of Buen Suceso, which had originally been built around 1529 as the Hospital Real de la Corte (Royal Hospital of the Court). Since 1590 the structure was rebuilt as a new church and hospital.[2] Around 1607, Pope Paul V presented the Obregonians with a statue of the Virgin, entitled Virgen del Buen Suceso.[3] Copies of the image were produced and veneration of Mary under this title spread throughout Spain and its territories.

Apparition in Ecuador (1594-1634)
Mariana de Jesús Torres
Servant of God[4]
Died16 January 1635
Venerated inArchdiocese of Quito

A Conceptionist sister named Mother Mariana de Jesús Torres purportedly received Marian apparitions under this title from 2 February 1594 to 2 February 1634.[4][note 1] In 1611, the local bishop gave his approval to the apparitions that had occurred up to that point.[5]

The apparition messages predict a "spiritual catastrophe" in the Catholic Church and in society, beginning "shortly after the middle of the twentieth century" and including:[6]

  • Widespread moral corruption
  • Profanation of the Sacrament of Matrimony
  • Depraved priests who will scandalize the faithful and cause suffering for good priests
  • Unbridled lust which will ensnare many souls
  • Loss of innocence among children and loss of modesty among women
  • Lack of priestly and religious vocations

The messages prophesy that the current period of catastrophe will be followed by a period of restoration.

On 8 December 1634, the apparition 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."[7] 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.[note 2]

Mother Mariana died on 16 January 1635,[4] shortly after the last alleged apparition. When her tomb was reopened in 1906, her body was found to be incorrupt.[5] The Archdiocese of Quito opened her cause for canonization in 1986[10] and finished the diocesan stage of the process in 1997.[4]

Statue in the Philippines
Main article: Our Lady of the Good Event (Parañaque)

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.

Notes
  1. 2 February is the feast day of the Purification of Mary and the Presentation of Jesus, the event with which the title is associated.
  2. In the Catholic Church, an ecumenical council possesses its authority by virtue of its decrees being promulgated by the Roman Pontiff.[8] Accordingly, the opening words of the First Vatican Council's constitution on papal infallibility identify it as being promulgated by "Pius, bishop, servant of the servants of God, with the approval of the Sacred Council, for an everlasting record."[9]

References
  1. Governing Council of the Real Monasterio de la Immaculada Concepción of Quito, Equador (2017-07-01). "Clarification on the Title 'Buen Suceso of the Purification'".
  2. Gómez de la Serna, Ramón. Historia de la Puerta del Sol, Almambru, 1987
  3. "Our Lady of Good Success". University of Dayton.
  4. González, Archbishop Antonio J. (1997-09-08). "Proceso de Beatificación y Canonización de la Servia de Dios Mariana de Jesús Torres y Berriochoa". Boletin Eclesiastico. 103 (Sep-Oct 1997): 431-437. Retrieved 2019-05-24.
  5. Graves, Jim (2011-03-31). "Marian Messenger". National Catholic Register. Retrieved 2019-05-27.
  6. Oddie, William (2012-07-26). "Our Lady of Quito prophesied that in the 60s there would be spiritual catastrophe in the Church; then, through the faith of the just, a 'complete restoration'". The Catholic Herald. Retrieved 2019-03-01.
  7. Coe, Jonathan (2019-05-16). "Our Lady Of Good Success: A Message For Our Time". Catholic Exchange. Retrieved 2019-05-27.
  8. Second Vatican Council (1964-11-21). "Lumen Gentium", §22. "A council is never ecumenical unless it is confirmed or at least accepted as such by the successor of Peter; and it is prerogative of the Roman Pontiff to convoke these councils, to preside over them and to confirm them."
  9. First Vatican Council (1870-07-18). "First dogmatic constitution on the Church of Christ".
  10. Stannus, Jane (2019-02-02). "The remarkable story behind Our Lady's prophecies from Ecuador". The Catholic Herald. Retrieved 2019-03-01.
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