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Our Lady of La Salette (French: Notre-Dame de La Salette) is a Marian apparition reported by two French children, Maximin Giraud and Mélanie Calvat, to have occurred at La Salette-Fallavaux, France, in 1846. On 19 September 1851, the local bishop formally approved the public devotion and prayers to Our Lady of La Salette.
The message was officially published by Mélanie Calvat herself on 15 November 1879 and received the imprimatur of Mgr. Salvatore Luigi Zola, bishop of Lecce near Naples (who had protected and assisted Calvat in his diocese) under the title Apparition of the Blessed Virgin on the Mountain of La Salette. [8]
The La Salette religious congregation traces its origin to a reported apparition on September 19, 1846 in the small French hamlet of La Salette. [1] The Missionaries of La Salette were founded as a "perpetual remembrance of Mary's merciful Apparition." [1] The Missionaries of La Salette were founded in 1852 by Philibert de Bruillard (1765 ...
On 19 September 1846, about three o'clock in the afternoon, on a mountain about three miles distant from the village of La Salette-Fallavaux, it is related that two children, a shepherdess of fifteen named Mélanie Calvat, called Mathieu, and a shepherd-boy of eleven named Maximin Giraud, both of them uneducated, beheld in a resplendent light a "beautiful lady" clad in a strange costume.
During a verbal examination on October 3, 1876 Mélanie answered Abbé F. Bliard thus about the mission she had received from heaven: This order embraces: 1. priests who will be missionaries of the Blessed Virgin Mary and the Apostles of Latter Times; 2. religious of the holy order who are subordinate to the missionaries; 3. the worldly Faithful who wish to unite themselves to and be ...
La Salette is many hundreds of kilometres from Lourdes, and the events at La Salette predate those in Lourdes by 12 years. However, the Marian apparition at La Salette was tall and maternal (not petite and gentle like her Lourdes apparition) and had a darker, more threatening series of messages.
Our Lady of La Salette [ edit ] Inspired by both the millennialist visionary Eugène Vintras [ fr ; ru ] and the reports of an apparition at La Salette— Our Lady of La Salette —Bloy was convinced that the Virgin's message was that if people did not reform, the end time was imminent. [ 9 ]
La Salette-Fallavaux (French pronunciation: [la salÉ›t falavo]) is a commune in the Isère department in southeastern France. [3] The sanctuary of Our Lady of La Salette in the mountains above the village is a well-known pilgrimage site devoted to an 1846 Marian apparition .