Mother Mariana de Jesus (1563-1635) of Ecuador had a great love for the sick at her convent. She said, “Sickness is the gauge that measures the virtue of every religious soul now and in all times.”

She predicted that throughout the centuries her convent would never lack sick persons and rare diseases. The acceptance of suffering would help the nuns grow in holiness and atone for the sins of the people.

Mother Mariana also predicted that toward the end of the 19th century, there would be two religious from her convent with leprosy. One would die in the convent and the other would enter a common leper colony. These victim souls would die holy deaths and would placate Divine Justice for the ungrateful people.

Mother Mariana knew that Ecuador would become independent from Spain. In 1628, she saw in visions the war between the angels and devils over the colony. She saw the four borders of Ecuador completely surrounded by a black cloud made up of countless devils. That cloud obscured the light of faith in souls, encouraged blasphemies, and hardened the hearts of the people.

Mother Mariana then saw the heavens opened wide, and a clear, overpowering light streamed over all of Ecuador. From every convent and cloister a spray of stars issued that rose to heaven. Over the four extremes of the land heavenly beams of light fell. There were thunder, lightning, and swords of fire. The heavenly swords defeated the devils. The evil spirits threatened: “The time will come when we will have excellent agents who, with force and violence, will win for us a good portion of this land. We will support them and give them earthly pleasures, comforts, and riches, and afterward torment them in hell for eternity because these ungrateful wretches ignored the mercies and benefits of their creator.”

After the visions, Our Lady of Good Success appeared with the Christ Child. Our Lady predicted Mother Mariana would live for another seven years, in memory of the seven sorrows and joys of Our Lady. Mother Mariana saw the Christ Child suffered with love for Ecuador.

Mother Mariana foresaw with great sadness that the future leaders of the convent would be moved by false charity and would admit persons without vocations or the proper spirit. Extravagant customs would be introduced under the appearance of virtue and false zeal. And good customs established by the Founding Mothers would be eliminated. The pure and true observance of the Rule would be subtly undermined.

However, Mother Mariana was comforted to know that Our Lady of Good Success and the Founding Mothers would be watching over the convent from heaven. Mother Mariana understood that the devotions to the Passion, the Blessed Sacrament, and Our Lady constitute the support and pillar of religious institutions, especially her own convent.

On Feb. 2, 1634, Mother Mariana was pleading earnestly for the spiritual well-being of her beloved convent. She was given the gift to see all pious institutions, congregations, and religious communities that would be founded until the end of time, as well as those that would be dissolved due to the decadence of their members or relaxations which resulted from careless admittance of unfit members because of the lack of correspondence to grace. Mother Mariana was given to know of the dire times the convent would pass through, above all in the middle of the 20th century.

Our Lady of Good Success told Mother Mariana that she would soon die and enter heaven. Our Lady would live in and govern the convent by means of the miraculous statue that Mother Mariana made and placed on the abbatial seat. During the apparition, Our Lady placed the Christ Child in the arms of Mother Mariana as a proof of her love for the convent.

                                        聖者預見國家及修院的未來 

瑪利娜.耶穌.陶麗詩姆姆 (1563-1635) 很愛護修院內的病者;她說:「疾病時常是量度所有修道者靈魂的工具。」接受病苦是修女們成聖的好機會,亦能為罪人做賠補。瑪利娜姆姆預言她的修院常會有患病和染疾的修女:十九世紀未,修院有兩人會患上痲風,她們一人會在修院內死去,另一人會被送到痲風病團體中生活;但她們兩人都會有聖善的死亡,也為不知恩的罪人賠補天主的公義。

瑪利娜姆姆又斷言厄瓜多爾會脫離西班牙而獨立。1628年,她在神視中看到天使與邪魔為了厄瓜多爾而戰鬥:厄瓜多爾週邊被充滿惡魔的烏雲所籠罩,阻擋了靈魂信德的真光,鼓吹了褻瀆和瞑頑不聆;後來又見到厄瓜多爾的上空敞揚,被神光廣照,修院及修院的迴廊有道道的閃星,緩緩上升天庭;在雷電交加、劍擊火閃中,惡魔在天威下被打敗,恐懼中狂唬著:「時候將到,我們將有卓越的使者,用武力和暴力,為我們賺得這地的一大部份。我們支持他們並給予他們俗世的福樂、閒逸、財富,之後便在地獄永遠折磨他們,因為這些不知恩的壞人忽略他們造物主的慈悲和恩惠。」

神視過後,「聖母、成功之母」手抱小基督顯現,給瑪利娜姆姆肯定她還有七年的壽命,以紀念聖母的七苦與喜樂。姆姆同時看到小基督為了厄瓜多爾,受了很大的苦痛。

瑪利娜姆姆很悲痛地預見後繼的修院院長們,誤用愛心地接納了沒有真實聖召的人,在修院引進了鋪張的習俗,卻把創院姆姆們的習思常行忘掉,忽視了當初創院時的規誡。幸好仍有賴「聖母、成功之母」和天堂上創院姆姆們的垂視,施以援手。瑪利娜姆姆明白,對基督苦難、聖體聖事,和聖母敬禮是修道團體,特別是她修院的支柱。

1634年2月2日,瑪利娜姆姆竭力為她所愛的修院祈求。她見到所有在世未前會被創立的修道團體,她也見到那些因成員衰落或因收納不合適的人而鬆懈的團體被解散。瑪利娜姆姆也預知她修院將遭遇的艱苦時期,尤其是在二十世紀中葉。

「聖母、成功之母」告和瑪利娜姆姆會不久離世進入天國,但聖母 自己仍親臨修院,藉擺放在院長座上的「成功之母」聖像,繼續管理修院。顯現完畢前,聖母把小耶穌放到瑪利娜姆姆的懷裡,表示她對修院無間的關愛。