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3 unusual facts about Mariana de Jesús de Paredes


Mariana de Jesús de Paredes

She was a hermit who is said to have sacrificed herself for the salvation of Quito.

Mariana possessed an ecstatic gift of prayer and is said to have been able to predict the future, see distant events as if they were passing before her, read the secrets of hearts, cure diseases by a mere sign of the Cross or by sprinkling the sufferer with holy water, and at least once restored a dead person to life.

She is the patron saint of Ecuador and venerated at the La Iglesia de la Compañía de Jesús in Quito.



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