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Our Lady of Good Success (Spanish: ''Nuestra Señora de la Buena Suerte'') is a
Catholic The Catholic Church, also known as the Roman Catholic Church, is the largest Christian church, with 1.3 billion baptized Catholics worldwide . It is among the world's oldest and largest international institutions, and has played a ...
Marian title associated with Marian images located in the Spanish cities of Granada and
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, the island of
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, and the region of
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. The seaside location of many of these images suggests that Spanish sailors would invoke Mary under this title specifically to petition for safe voyages.


Conflation with ''Buen Suceso''

Among English speakers, this title (''Buena Suerte'') is often confused with a similar title, ''Nuestra Señora del Buen Suceso'' (meaning
Our Lady of the Good Event Our Lady of the Good Event (Spanish: ''Nuestra Señora del Buen Suceso'') is a Catholic Marian title in Spanish-speaking countries. It is often mistranslated as "Our Lady of Good Success" due to the superficial similarity between the Spanish word ...
), due to the superficial similarity between "success" in English and "suceso" in Spanish. The ''Buen Suceso'' title, however, refers specifically to the "good event" of the Purification of Mary and the Presentation of Jesus.


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