A monastery in Ecuador. Mother Mariana suffered much as she tried to guide the nuns at the Conceptionist Monastery of Quito, Ecuador. (David Adam Kess / Wikimedia Commons)
Mother Maria Taboada governed the Conceptionist Monastery of Quito in Ecuador for 16 years, since it was founded in 1577.
Then, Mother Maria felt her health failing and wished to prepare herself for death. She suggested a new superior be elected. The community chose her niece, 30 year-old Sister Mariana de Jesus Torres, to be Abbess. The young woman thus became Mother Mariana.
Both Mother Mariana and Mother Maria received revelations regarding the future of their convent. They knew every nun who would profess in their community to the end of the world. They knew that in every age there would be nuns of great holiness, but there would be ungrateful and disobedient ones as well. The holy nuns would divert great calamities from Ecuador and would maintain the faith even during the calamitous twentieth century.
Mother Maria promised to continue to guide the community from heaven before she died in 1594. Mother Mariana often experienced heavenly assistance from Mother Maria, but it was not easy for her to be Abbess. There was financial difficulty and division within the community.
On February 2, 1594, Mother Mariana was praying for the community and for the world when Our Lady appeared to her. She had the Child Jesus on her left arm and a crosier on her right. Our Lady called herself “Mary of Good Success.” She told Mother Mariana that she carried a crosier at her right arm because she desired to govern the convent as Abbess and mother.
Our Lady said: “Satan will begin to try to destroy this world of God, making use of my ungrateful daughters, but he will not succeed, because I am the Queen of Victories and the Mother of Good Success, and under this invocation I desire to be known throughout time for the preservation of my convent and its inhabitants.”
Our Lady warned Mother Mariana of the many sufferings in store for her. To strengthen her, Our Lady placed the Christ Child in her arms. She embraced him next to her heart and felt within herself the strong desire to suffer.
The time of great suffering for Mother Mariana came when Mother Magdalena of Jesus Valenzuela was elected Abbess.
The new Abbess's personality was weaker and she was easily manipulated by nuns with evil intent. Under Mother Valenzuela, the direction of the convent was transferred from the Franciscan Friars to the Bishop of Quito. Also, the observance of the rule began to decline, prescribed times of silence were no longer observed, and abuses multiplied.
Mother Mariana begged the Abbess to correct the infractions and deviations of the rule. However, the rebellious faction sent slanderous reports against Mother Mariana to ecclesiastical authority, and Mother Mariana was wrongly sent to a prison cell within the convent. When Spanish foundresses of the community, and other nuns, protested the unjust treatment of Mother Mariana, they were also sent into prison. At one point as many as 25 nuns were imprisoned with Mother Mariana.
One night during imprisonment, God sent spiritual consolations to the prisoners and the seven foundresses received visions that strengthened them spiritually.
Eventually, Mother Valenzuela was tormented with remorse over the situation of the community. She wrote a letter to the Bishop, confessing that it was due to her own weakness that rebellious nuns manipulated her and caused the imprisonment of innocent nuns. The Bishop reprimanded Mother Valenzuela severely and ordered the immediate release of the victims.
After the imprisonment, Mother Mariana was elected Abbess once again. The rebellious band was filled with fury and they slandered her to such a point that the Bishop ordered her to an isolated cell.
During her second imprisonment, Our Lady appeared to Mother Mariana again. Our Lady predicted in the 19th century a truly Christian man would govern Ecuador. He would consecrate the country to the Sacred Heart and would die as a martyr. This prophesy was fulfilled in the person of President Gabriel Garcia Moreno (1821-1875).
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瑪利娜.耶穌.陶麗詩修女的姨母、瑪利亞.耶穌.塔博昂姆姆，自1577年厄瓜多爾的聖方濟各基多無玷修會修院成立以來，任修院院長；十六年後、即1593年，她感到健康每況越下，提出繼任人的選舉。結果，年僅三十歲的瑪利娜.耶穌.陶麗詩修女當選，成了修院的瑪利娜姆姆。
瑪利亞姆姆和瑪利娜姆姆兩人，均從啟示中，得悉修會的將來。
她們認識到每一位將在修院發愿的修女直到世界的終結；期間會孕育出非常聖善的修女，然而，亦會出現一些忘恩負義和不服從的修女。聖善的修女會使巨大災害遠離厄瓜多爾，並讓信德在二十世紀得以留存。
1594年瑪利亞姆姆去世，她時答應在天堂上，繼續引導修院團體；而瑪利娜姆姆常經歷她實行的諾言，得到她來自天國的幫助。
瑪利娜姆姆在修院裡善盡院長職責並非容易，遇到財務和人事問題上的挑戰。1594年2月2日，瑪利娜姆姆正為修院團體和世界祈禱，聖母顯現給她：聖母左手抱著耶穌聖嬰，右手握著牧杖，自稱「瑪利亞、成功之母」，且解釋手執牧杖，是要作修院的院長和姆姆，要親自管理修院。
聖母說：「撒旦要藉忘恩負義的女兒們，嘗試毀滅天主的世界，但必不會成功，因為我是『勝利之母』和『成功之母』，我盼望在這稱呼下被世代認識，以保存我的修院及在比居住的人。」
聖母警告瑪利娜姆姆會受很多苦痛。為堅強她，聖母把聖嬰交到她的手中；皆抱聖嬰時，瑪利娜姆姆頓時感到強烈的渴望去受苦。
瑪大肋納.耶穌.華綸素拉修女接任院長一職後，瑪利娜姆姆的痛苦便開始了。瑪大肋納姆姆品性較懦弱，常被心懷不軌的修女橾控，竟把修院原屬方濟會規誡轉移給基多的主教麾下；並且，原有的規誡漸漸地被忽略，在不再遵守特時段的靜默，胡作妄為頻生。
瑪利娜姆姆向院長瑪大肋納姆姆進言，請求改正修院歪風，卻遭到逆行修女們向教會當局誹謗她，使她被軟禁在修院的囚室中；甚至為她澄清抗辯的修女、包括七位團體創辦人，都遭到同一對待。結果，偕同瑪利娜姆姆一起被囚的，有二十五位修女。一天晚上，天主的神慰到臨室內各人，七位團體創辦人藉神視得以堅強。
修院團體的紛亂，帶給了瑪大肋納姆姆良心的折滕；她致函基多主教，坦承自己的軟弱，受利於逆行的修女，使循規的修女無辜下囚。主教馬上嚴斥瑪大肋納姆姆，飭令釋放所有被關的修女。
瑪利娜姆姆重新被委為院長，卻加劇逆行修女們的嫉怒，又見對瑪利娜姆姆的誹謗叢生，言之鑿鑿，多基主教再下令單獨軟禁瑪利娜姆姆。
第二次被軟禁時，聖母顯現給瑪利娜姆姆，預言在十九世紀會有一位熱心的教友管治厄瓜多爾，並把國家奉獻給耶穌聖心，但他會因此殉道。結果，在佳播.嘉西亞.莫尼奴總統(1821-1875)身上完全應驗了。