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 "" and the English false friend "success."
Properly speaking, the phrase "Good Event" refers to the Purification of Mary and the Presentation of Jesus.

16th-century church in Madrid

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. Since 1590 the structure was rebuilt as a new church and hospital. Around 1607, Pope Paul V presented the Obregonians with a statue of the Virgin, entitled Virgen del Buen Suceso. Copies of the image were produced and veneration of Mary under this title spread throughout Spain and its territories.

Apparition in Ecuador (1594-1634)

A Conceptionist sister named Mother Mariana de Jesús Torres purportedly received Marian apparitions under this title from 2 February 1594 to 2 February 1634. In 1611, the local bishop gave his approval to the apparitions that had occurred up to that point.
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:
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." 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.
Mother Mariana died on 16 January 1635, shortly after the last alleged apparition. When her tomb was reopened in 1906, her body was found to be incorrupt. The Archdiocese of Quito opened her cause for canonization in 1986 and finished the diocesan stage of the process in 1997.

Statue in the Philippines

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.