the-glories-of-mary

48 GLOBIES OP MARY.
followed the false sect to which he belonged;
but enlightened by divine grace, which showed
him his errors, he went to France, where, with
the assistance of a good Jesuit father, who was
like himself a Scotchman, and still more by the
intercession of the blessed Virgin, he at length
saw the truth, abjured heresy, and became a
Catholic. He went afterwards to Rome, where
a friend of his found him one day very much
afflicted, and weeping. He asked him the cause,
and he answered, that in the night his mother
had appeared to him and said: "My son, it is
well for thee that thou hast entered the true
Church; I am already lost, because I died in her
From that time he became more fervent
esy."
in his devotion to Mary, chose her for his moth
er, and by her was inspired to become a re
ligious.
He made a vow to do so, but being ill,
he went to Naples to restore his health by a
change of air. But the Lord ordered it so that
he should die in Naples, and die a religious; for,
having become ill
dangerously soon after his
arrival there, he by prayers and tears obtained
from the superiors admittance, and when about
receiving the viaticum, he made his vows in pres
ence of the blessed sacrament, and was enrolled
in the society. After this, in the tenderness of
his feelings, he gave thanks to his mother Mary
for having rescued him from heresy, and brought
him to die in the true Church, and in a religious
house in the midst of his brethren. Therefore,
he exclaimed: "Oh! how glorious it is to die in