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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.
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.
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 - 1860), [ 2 ] the Bishop of Grenoble , in southeastern France , as a testimony to Our Lady's appeal to "make (her message) known to all her people."
Gouin, Paul, Sister Mary of the Cross. Shepherdess of La Salette. Melanie Calvat, The 101 Foundation, Asbury-NJ, 1968 (en) Roullet, Hervé, L'apparition de la Vierge Marie à La Salette. Marie réconciliatrice. Les vies de Mélanie Calvat et Maximin Giraud. Actualité des secrets, Roullet Hervé, Dif. AVM, Paris, 2021 (fr). See in particular ...
Statue of Our Lady of La Salette, an 1846 apparition reported to have occurred in France. Some apparitions are one-time events, such as Our Lady of La Salette (France, 1846). Others recur over an extended period of time, such as Our Lady of Laus (France, 17th/18th centuries), whose seer claimed 54 years of appearances. Public, serial ...
Marian apparitions are reported supernatural appearances by Mary, the mother of Jesus.Below is a list of alleged events concerning notable Marian apparitions, which have either been approved by a major Christian church, or which retain a significant following despite the absence of official approval or despite an official determination of inauthenticity.
A very important Marian apparition shrine for Catholics. Cathedral of Chartres; Conques; St Trophimus' Church, Eschau; Issoudun [4] La Salette, Our Lady of La Salette; Saint Catherine Labouré of Paris; Pellevoisin. Apparition of the Virgin Mary. Taizé Community, modern monastery that actively encourages pilgrimages to it. Basilica of St ...
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 .