Mother Mariana de Jesus Torres Quito Ecuador 1635
Feastday not known
Born not known
Died 1635
Mother Mariana de Jesus Torres was a
Spanish Conceptionist sister who traveled from her Country to the New World to
help found the Royal Convent in Quito, Ecuador. Favoured with many singular
gifts from heaven, this chosen soul was given to know many future events,
especially the grevious situation of the Church in the 20th century. The
apparition of Our Lady when the visions of the 20th century were shown to
Mother Mariana has been approved by the Church and Mother Mariana has been
declared Venerable in the first step towards her canonization. On January 16,
1635, surrounded by her community and her Franciscan confessors, Mother Mariana
made a solemn profession of Faith and then asked, as a last favour, to die on
the ground, in imitation ot her Seraphic Father, St Francis. After receiving
Holy Communion and the Sacrament of Extreme Unction, she foretold the exact
hour of her death: 3 p.m. Just before she died, she read he last will and
testament, a moving testimony that gave her daughters inestimable advice about
the religious life along with many prophecies concerning the order. During the
wake , the sight of a blind girl was restored when a flower from the crown the
encircled Mother Mariana’s head was touched to her eyes. In 1906, during the
remodeling of the Convent, her three-Century old tomb was opened. They
discovered the body of Mother Mariana de Jesus WHOLE AND INCORRUPT, complete
with her habit and articles of penance that had been placed in the tomb with
her. An exquisite aroma of Lilies emanated from her whole body. Thus God
preserves some of his saints who practice heroic virtue and maintain holy
chastity in their earthly lives.
PART 1
Our Lady of Good Fortune appeared to Mother
Mary Anne of Jesus Torres, in Quito, Ecuador, on February 2, 1634, with the child.
Jesus on her left arm and the scepter in her right hand. At her. appearance the
sanctuary light went out, which Our Lady stated had five. meanings. Those
having to do with the eclipse of the Church and the lack of a Pope in our
century are:
"First meaning: at the end of the 19th century and for a large part of the. 20th, various heresies will flourish on this earth which will have become. a free republic. The precious light of the Faith will go out in souls. because of the almost total moral corruption: in those times there will be. great physical and moral calamities, in private and in public. The little. number of souls keeping the Faith and practicing the virtues will. undergo cruel and unspeakable sufferings....
The third meaning of the lamp's going out
is that in those times, the air. will be filled with the spirit of impurity
which like a deluge of filth will. flood the streets, squares and public
places. The licentiousness will be. such that there will be no more virgin
souls in the world..
A fourth meaning is that by having gained
control of all the social. classes, the sects will tend to penetrate with great
skill into the heart of. families and destroy even the children. The devil will
take glory in. feeding perfidiously on the hearts of children. The innocence
of. childhood will almost disappear. Thus priestly vocations will be lost, it.
will be a real disaster. Priests will abandon their sacred duties and will
depart from the path marked out for them by God. Then the Church will go through
a dark night for lack of a Prelate and Father to watch. over it with love,
gentleness, strength and prudence, and numbers of. priests will lose the spirit
of God, thus placing their souls in great danger.
The most Holy Trinity confirmed the desire
of my Queen, assuring that God will bless all those who, by their support and
help, contribute in the making of the Holy Statue, as well as all those who
help spread this devotion (to Our Lady of Good Success) throughout the
centuries, making known its origin and these apparitions in the 20th century.
This will be a time of great corruption of customs. The sacred sacrament of
Holy Orders will be ridiculed, oppressed and despised, for in doing this, one
scorns and defiles the Church of God, and even God Himself, represented by His
priests. The Demon will try to persecute the Ministers of the Lord in every
possible way."
PART 2
The punishment for the 20th
century: I shall punish heresy, blasphemy and impurity. During this epoch the
church will find itself attacked by waves of a secret sect and this Ecuadoran
land will be agonizing because of the corruption of customs, unbridled luxury,
extravagance, the impious press and laic education. The sacred sacrament of
Holy Orders will be ridiculed, oppressed and despised for in doing this one
scorns and defiles the church of God and even God himself, represented by his
priests. The demon will try to persecute the ministries of our Lord in every
possible way and he will labour with cruel and subtle astuteness to deviate
them from the spirit of their vocation, corrupting many of them. These
corrupted priests who will thus scandalize the church will incite the hatred of
bad Christians and the enemies of the Roman Catholic and Apostolic church to
fall upon all the priests. This apparent triumph of Satan will bring enormous
sufferings to the good pastors of the church to the great majority of good
priests and to the supreme pastor and vicar of Christ on earth who will shed
secret and bitter tears in the presence of his God and Lord beseeching light,
sanctity and perfection for all the clergy of the world of which he is king and
father. Moreover in these unhappy times there will be unbridled luxury which
acting thus to snare the rest into sin will conquer innumerable frivolous souls
who will lose themselves. Innocence will almost no longer be found in Children
nor modesty and in this supreme moment of need the church, those whom it
behooves to speak will fall silent.
PART 3
Know moreover that Divine Justice releases terrible
chastizements on entire nations not only for sins of the people but for those
of priests and religious persons. For the latter are called by the perfection
of their state to be the salt of the earth the masters of truth and the
deflectors of the divine Ire. Starying from their divine mission they degrade
themselves in such as way before the
eyes of God, they are the ones who quicken the rigors of punishments. Because
detatching themselves from Me they end up living only a superficial life of the
soul maintaining a distance from me that is unworthy of my ministers. With
their frigidity and lack of confidence they act as if I were a stranger to
them.I am greatly pleased by religious souls that take upon themselves the
sublime task of sanctifying the clergy by means of their prayers, sacrifices
and prayers. Throughout time I will choose for myself such souls so that
uniting themselves to me they will labour, pray and suffer for the attainment
of this most noble end with special glory awaiting them in heaven. That which ias most sorrowful is that even
in the secular clergy there will be much to be desired, for the ministries of
the altar will have forgotten their sublime mission of identifying themselves
with my most Holy Son through means of knowing themselves and humble daily and
fervent prayer. They will live only a superficial life of the soul without
detatching themselves from material things, being too greatly attatched to
family and to riches. They will think they can aspire to sanctity in the priestly
state by means of practising one or two virtues without taking care to
construct the solid foundation of a profound humility without which no virtue
can exist . How can anyone without humility give pleasure or delight to God?
For God resists the period and exalts the humble and simple of heart to whom he
delights in manifesting and communicating His secrets