Ecuador’s Gabriel García Moreno had been the…

Ecuador’s Gabriel García Moreno had been the only ruler in the world to protest the Pope's loss of the Papal States, and two years later has the legislature consecrate Ecuador to the Sacred Heart of Jesus.

One of his biographers writes that after this public consecration, he was marked for death by German Freemasons (Maxwell-Scott, Mary Monica, Gabriel Garcia Moreno, Regenerator of Ecuador, p. 152. London 1914)

García Moreno had generated some animosity with his friendship toward the Society of Jesus (Jesuits).

During a period of exile, he helped some displaced Jesuits find refuge in Ecuador.

He had also advocated legislation which would outlaw secret societies. (Henderson, Peter V. N., "Gabriel Garcia Moreno and Conservative State Formation in the Andes" p. 28; University of Texas Press, 2008)