It was February 2, 1594, when the Blessed Virgin greeted her in this way,

“I am Mary of Good Success, the Queen of Heaven and Earth….I have come from Heaven to console your afflicted heart….it is under this invocation that I desire to be known throughout time for the preservation of my convent….”

"Here God Will Always Find These Souls
Like Hidden Violets"

[taken from "The Admirable Life of Mother Mariana Vol 1, pg 141,
quote of Our Lady of Good Success to Mother Mariana on the subject of the Monastery]

(the picture above is of a cover of an unpublished booklet on Mother Mariana which we hope to print soon)

In Catholic literature and art, flowers have always symbolized a variety of virtues. In this realm, violets are first known as a symbol of humility and then to a lesser degree modesty, simplicity and constancy.

Violets which grow low to the ground have been known to symbolize the Blessed Virgin Mary’s humility. St Bernard called Our Lady “the violet of humility.” Since all of these wonderful virtues attributed to Our Lady can also be ascribed to our dear sainted Mother Mariana, the Postulator for the Cause of Mother Mariana de Jesus Torres, Monsignor Dr. Luis Cadena y Almeida, has titled her “The Violet of the Andes.”

Thus, Mariana was one of the first Spring “violets” of this convent in Quito. Entering the religious life at thirteen, her virtuous soul, so little and delicate, gave a delightfully refreshing and joyful appearance to the yet barren garden of this savagely pagan country of South America.

Just as the violet spreads its seeds prolifically throughout the rest of the garden, so too, this humble soul would contagiously cause humility and other virtues to grow in other souls by her heroically meritorious example. So, as a sweet violet thinking itself the most lowly of flowers in its master’s garden, is often found hiding bashfully under its heart shaped leaves, not daring to show its face amongst the other garden beauties and never realizing that it could be possible that it was considered to be one of the most treasured of flowers in its Master’s garden, so too was this the case with “The Violet of the Andes.” Yes, just as the humble, unknown virgin at Nazareth was chosen to be the Mother of God so too was this modest soul of Mariana called for great things within the confines of her convent walls hidden from the eyes of men.

For two years, Mariana worked beside her aunt accepting the menial chores of convent life separated from the other sisters and novices until it was time to begin her religious life, officially.

During the course of her novitiate, from the age of 15 throughout her entire religious life until her death, Mariana was given numerous trials in both the spiritual and physical levels. Heaven permitted these trials as a means of perfecting and strengthening her soul for the future. Every trial was seemingly dependent on the past trials for support as if she were climbing a ladder of ascending mortifications, increasing in intensity on each rung.

Our Lord and Our Lady called on her to act as a victim soul first for the souls of the convent, for priests and religious orders, for the city and the country, finally for the Church and the whole world The Mother Abbess admitted to inflicting trials upon Mariana during this time in order to test her virtue, the results being that she acted as “an angel nourished solely by Divine Love.”  Besides all of this, Mariana would inflict upon herself the most austere penances such as hair-shirts, flagellation, bitter herbs, and even iron tacks placed on her body.

Nuestra Senora del Buen Suceso in Madrid, Spain

«Look, She smiles! Why is She smiling? What a Good Success you have achieved with this trip! There is no doubt that Our Lady has decided to protect you and support you in your work. So I am not the one to go against Her. May your wishes have a Good Success!».

“She kept all these words in her heart…” Luke 2:51

“A simple, humble faith in the truth of My apparitions to you, my predilect child, will be reserved for humble and fervent souls docile to the inspirations of grace, for Our Heavenly Father communicates His secrets to the simple of heart, and not to those whose hearts are inflated with pride, pretending to know what they do not or infatuated with empty science.” 

“They will have recourse to Me under the invocation of Our Lady of Good Success and this statue I now ask and command that you have made for the consolation and preservation of My Convent and for those faithful souls of that epoch during which there will be a great devotion to Me,  for I am Queen of Heaven under many invocations."

"We've just killed a billion people..." Cardinal Bea on the topic of reading the Third Secret of Fatima 

"Who is She who come forth as the morning dawn, fair as the moon, bright as the sun?" from the Gradual of the the Feast of Our Lady of Guadalupe

Hail and Blessed be the hour and the moment in which the Son of God was born...

Considering the recent pagan rituals that occurred in the Vatican and promoted by the Hierarchy we would do well to spend the rest of November and December making reparation and doing penance for these terrible acts against God- against the Ten Commandments! God punished, people and Nations for such crimes most especially outstanding public crimes that lead others into sin such as these!!! Heaven is crying out for Vengeance for these acts!!! 

The organization I am writing about is: The Servants of Jesus and Mary. 

"Satan Really Will Succeed in Infiltrating to the Top of the Church"

July 13th, 1917 - words from Our Lady of Fatima

“Fight, children of light, you the small number who can see; for behold the time of times, the end of ends.”

Quito in upheaval due to increase in gas prices! Government moves from Quito to Guayaquil to avoid coup!

From an Ecuadorean we received this message:

Un día como hoy, 08 de Octubre de 1873 se firmó el decreto de Consagración del Ecuador al Sagrado Corazón de Jesús.
Pongamos nuestra Patria y familias bajo su amparo. Que el Sagrado Corazón de Cristo Venza , Cristo Reine, que Cristo proteja y nos auxilie en los momentos de peligro. Sagrado Corazón de Jesús, en vos confío.

Which translates in English:

A day like today, October 8,
 1873, the decree of Consecration
 of Ecuador to the Sacred Heart of Jesus was signed.
Let us put our country and families
 under their protection. May the Sacred Heart
 of Christ Come, may Christ reign, may Christ
 protect and help us in times of danger.
 Sacred Heart of Jesus, I trust in Thee.

 “May St. Michael protect and defend you from the infernal enemy”

 ~ Padre Pio to Lina Fiorellini ~

May Saint Michael protect and defend you against the infernal enemy"  

~ Padre Pio~

Words of Pope Pius XII concerning the miraculous La Dolorosa of Quito:

“…According to the witnesses [of the miracle], the Virgin showed us, even in the midst of her eternal happiness and as a sign of her maternal request for the salvation of her children, anguish and sadness, to the point of appearing to break into tears, to see your Catholic nation ravaged by persecution, stained with blood, dragged to such extremes by the sectarian hatred that could be said to endanger that old and holy legacy of Faith, especially if it succeeded in carrying out the purpose of De-Christianizing the education of your children..."

On the subject of Fr. Emilio Moscoso:

“That night, just before his death, one of his fellow priests and good friends noticed that he was very joyful because he knew that he was going to die.  One of his Jesuits friends testified that at that moment when they were imprisoned, he was given the grace of martyrdom.