THE MIRACLE PICTURE OF 
OUR LADY OF QUITO

On April 20, 1906, thirty-six boys attending the boarding school of the Jesuit Fathers at Quito, Ecuador, together with Father Andrew Roesch, witnessed the first miracle of this famous picture.

 While in the refectory, they saw the Blessed Mother slowly open and shut eyes. The same miracle occurred several times after this, once more in favour of the boys at the school, but this time in the chapel, to which the picture had been taken.

 Subsequently, the canonical process of examination was carried out by the ecclesiastical authorities, and the Vicar General ordered the picture to be transferred in procession from the College to the Church of the Jesuit Fathers. At the church the prodigy was repeated several times before the crowds gathered there, and many conversions took place..

And again the wonder repeated itself, at one time for three consecutive days. At Riobamba, the same winder was witnessed before a reproduction of the picture by more than twenty persons, among whom was the president of the municipality. In  Quito, this picture is known as the Dolorosa del Colegio.