Top 100 Marian Apparitions

Between 1594 and 1634 in Quito, Ecuador, the Venerable Mother Mariana de Jesús Torres, a Conceptionist nun, experienced a series of profound apparitions of the Blessed Virgin Mary under the title of Our Lady of Good Success. During these visions, Mary frequently appeared holding the Child Jesus in her left arm and a bishop's crozier in her right hand, signifying her role as the true Abbess of the convent. Mother Mariana, a woman of deep prayer and penance, was chosen to receive urgent and highly prophetic messages concerning the future of the Church and society. The Virgin Mary spoke specifically about the 19th and 20th centuries, warning of a severe spiritual crisis characterized by widespread impurity, the corruption of the clergy, a decline in religious vocations, and a general loss of faith.

Alongside these sobering prophecies, the apparitions were accompanied by extraordinary miracles and signs. One of the most famous miracles involves the creation of the statue of Our Lady of Good Success. Mary instructed Mother Mariana to have a life-sized statue carved to her exact likeness. While a local sculptor was commissioned for the work, historical accounts and convent records state that the statue was miraculously completed overnight by the Archangels Michael, Gabriel, and Raphael, along with St. Francis of Assisi, before the earthly artist could finish it. Furthermore, Mother Mariana willingly accepted the stigmata and offered her intense physical and spiritual sufferings as an expiatory victim for the sins of the future generations that Mary had described.

Fully approved by the local bishop, the apparitions of Our Lady of Good Success have left a lasting and powerful impact on the faithful. Following her death, Mother Mariana’s body was discovered to be incorrupt and remains preserved in the Conceptionist convent in Quito to this day. In recent decades, global devotion to Our Lady of Good Success has surged as many believers see the fulfillment of her prophecies in the modern world. The devotion continues to offer a beacon of hope, anchored in Mary's comforting promise to Mother Mariana that just when the evil of the times would seem triumphant and all would appear lost, it would mark the "happy beginning of the complete restoration."