![]() ![]() The discovery of Our Lady of Good Success ![]() So far the Bugnini-style reform has not touched their rite. As most Catholics know, the Ukrainian rite did not adopt the reforms of Vatican II because the Ukrainians are very attached to their own traditions. He informed me that the Good Success Church has become the parish church of the Ukrainian Catholic Eastern-Rite community in Madrid, which is very numerous and extremely devout. He was kind enough to send me a picture, which you can see at right. It is a small statue, only 20 inches in height, different from the statue in Quito, which is 5 foot 9 inches. Statue of Our Lady of Good Success, discovered miraculously in 1606, is venerated. A., wrote and told me that he often goes to Mass at the Church ofĮl Buen Suceso, one of the city’s foremost parishes where another Lady of Good Success of the Purification, as women would invoke her to have The title Our Lady of Good Success was not invented in Quito, but wasĪlready a popular invocation, as the Virgen de Candalaria or Our The first statue in Madrid: 20" in height The skeptical or bad-willed insists the title is something novel that only appeared in the 20th century. The curious wonder if this was a new title that Our Lady gave to Mother Mariana de Jesus Torres when she appeared to her in the early 17th century asking her to make a statue under this name. ![]() Many persons have asked me about the origins of the invocation Our Lady of Good Success. The Original Statue of Our Lady of Good Success in Madrid by Marian Horvat ![]()
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |