On January 16, 1599, the Holy Mother of God appeared to mother Mariana of Jesus Torres at the Convent of the Immaculate Conception in Quito, Ecuador, and asked her to make a statue with the child upon her appearance. Jesus in her left hand and a cross and the keys of the monastery in her right hand. The Virgin holds the cross as a sign that she rules the monastery and also requested that her statue be placed on the abbess' throne, where this statue...