Mary as our Mother

From the history of the foundations of the Society of Jesus in the Kingdom of Naples.

William was a Scottish nobleman and a relation of King James, raised Protestant. Through grace, and as Liguori says through the intercession of the Blessed Virgin Mary, he came to the Catholic faith.

After this his love for Our Lady grew. He took her as his mother and vowed to enter religious life. He fell ill and went to Naples for his health, but it was there that he died, and there that his vow was fulfilled. On his deathbed he was received into the Society of Jesus, making his vows before the Blessed Sacrament.

He died peacefully, telling those around him that he could see angels, repeating the word "mother," and slipping away like a child falling asleep in his mother's arms. It was later made known that he passed quickly through purgatory into paradise.

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Source:

Simplified retellings of the "example" stories that St. Alphonsus Liguori placed at the end of each section of The Glories of Mary. These are paraphrased in plain modern prose, faithful to the substance of the 1888 English translation. Liguori himself, in his author's "Protest," noted that the miracles and apparitions in the book are offered on human authority only, not as articles of faith.