Our Lady of Good Success

**Our Lady of Good Success** (*Nuestra Señora del Buen Suceso*) is a Marian title associated with apparitions received by Mother Mariana de Jesús Torres at the Conceptionist Convent in Quito, Ecuador between 1594 and 1634. The devotion was approved by Bishop Salvador de Ribera of Quito in 1611. Our Lady appeared holding the Infant Jesus in her left arm and a crozier and keys in her right hand, signifying her role as the true and perpetual Abbess of the convent. The miraculous statue, begun by Mother Mariana in obedience to Our Lady's command and reportedly completed by St. Francis of Assisi and the Archangels, remains above the Abbess's chair in the upper choir of the convent church. The title "Good Success" (*Buen Suceso*) refers to the Purification of Mary and the Presentation of Jesus. The feast is celebrated on February 2nd, Candlemas Day.