MARCH 6 - SAINT MARY ANN OF JESUS
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(also known as the Lily of Quito and Mariana of Jesus)
Born in Quito, Ecuador (then a part of Peru), 1618; died May 26, 1645; canonized 1950. Mariana’s story very closely resembles that of Saint Rose of Lima. Hers, too, was a life of penance, solitude, ecstasies, and prophecy. Rose’s parents were Spanish nobles, who died while she was still young. She was raised by her elder sister and her husband. Early in life, Mariana was attracted to religious things. At the age of 12, she wanted to evangelize Japan. She tried her vocation as a religious. When the vocation failed, she became a Franciscan tertiary and a solitary in her sister’s home under the direction of her Jesuit confessor.
Like Saint Rose, Mariana, the “Lily of Quito” who called herself Mariana of Jesus, ministered to the needy and taught Indian children in her home. Mariana’s penitential practices, however, were even more startling than those of Rose. In fact, they were so extravagant that they seem to be the product of morbid fanaticism and appear to be more the result of a hagiographer’s exaggeration than of a Jesuit’s spiritual direction. She ate hardly anything and slept for only three hours a night for years. She had the gift of prophecy and a reputation for performing miracles.
During an epidemic in Quito following an earthquake in 1645, Mariana publicly offered her life in expiation for the sins of others, and in fact died soon after the epidemic began to abate. She, Saint Rose, and others like them were simply seeking to follow Christ in his spirit and his sufferings, but the means were not always prudently chosen, and such saints pose delicate questions of religion and psychology (Attwater, Benedictines, Delaney, Farmer, Keyes).
MLA Citation
Katherine I Rabenstein. Saints of the Day, 1998. CatholicSaints.Info. 15 June 2020. Web. 6 March 2023. catholicsaints.info/…-of-the-day-mariana-de-paredes-y-flores-of-quito/>
@ Irapuato. Dear Irapuato; The picture in the video at 00:50 is not Saint Mariana de Paredes y Flores. It belongs to the devotion of Our Lady of Good Success. Her name is Mariana de Jesus Torres y Berriochoa; a founding Mother of the Conceptionist Convent in Quito, Equador. Our Lady of Quito, Queen of Equador was actually 'Our Lady of the Seven Sorrows'.
Equador was the first nation that officially consecrated itself to the Sacred Heart of Jesus on March 25th, 1874 and on August 6th, 1892 to the Immaculate Heart of Mary.
The people used to parade the miraculous image of 'Our Lady of Sorrows' throughout all Equador with a procession in each city.
President Gabriel Garcia Moreno was very devoted to Our Lady of Sorrows and used to pray before Her image.
After being mortally wounded, he was carried back into the Cathedral and died
at the foot of his Sorrowful Mother.
He was also very devoted to Saint Mariana de Paredes y Flores and paid to have her shrine restored in the square.
She was born in 1618,
Died 1645 at the age of 26,
Feast day is on May 26th.
Beatified by Pope Pius 1X in 1853.
Canonized in 1950 by Pope Pius X11.
Apparently she did not leave any writings?
Taken from Butlers Lives of the Saints. Vol. 11 Page 401.
Source (Society of Pius X) wwwsspxasia.com>Newsletters>2006>July-Dec: >
@ Irapuato. > This may be of interest to you; The Strange History of a False Catholic Prophecy | The News and Times Politics
The problem is that none of this ever happened. All sources of this event and the prophecies come from The Admirable Life of Mother Mariana of Jesus Torres, written by Prior Manuel de Souza Pereira in 1790, almost two centuries after it was to take place. The biggest problem in the prophecy is the use of Freemasonry, which was a group started in London during the early 18th century and did not become politically active until after 1750, a century and a half after Mariana was said to have received the prophecy.