Our Lady of La Salette
Our Lady of La Salette is a Marian apparition reported by two
children, Maximin Giraud and Mélanie Calvat [1] to have occurred at La Salette-Fallavaux, France, in 1846.
On
19 September 1851, Pope Pius IX formally approved the
public devotion and prayers to Our Lady of La Salette, referring to its
messages of apparition as "secrets". On 24 August 1852, Pope Pius IX
once again mentioned the construction of the altar to La Salette. The same
papal bull granted the foundation of the Association of Our Lady of La Salette,
formalized on 7 September.
According to the children's account,
the Virgin invited people to respect the repose
of the seventh day, and to respect
the name of God. She sorrowfully threatened
punishment, in particular a scarcity of potatoes, which would rot. The context
of these punishments places the warning just prior to the winter of 1846–1847,
which was in Europe, and especially in France and in Ireland, a
period of famine in the months which followed the apparition. This was one of
the factors of the apparition's popular appeal.
The message of the visionaries of La
Salette focuses on the conversion of all humanity to Christ. John
Vianney, John
Bosco, and writer Joris-Karl Huysmans were
all influenced by La Salette. The spirit of La Salette is said to be one of
prayer, conversion, and commitment. Fr. René J. Butler,
M.S. of the La Salette Missionaries of North America says, "The whole purpose of the Apparition of Our Lady of La Salette was
reconciliation."
Pope
John Paul II stated: "As I wrote on the
occasion of the 150th anniversary, 'La
Salette is a message of hope, for our hope is nourished by the intercession of
her who is the Mother of mankind." (Source –
Wikipedia)
Saint Annibale di Francia
(Founder of the Rogationists and Daughters of the Divine Zeal) who was the
Extraordinary Confessor to Servant of God, Luisa Piccarreta, and where Melanie Calvat stayed at his
Institute (Daughters of the Divine Zeal) for a year, wrote to Luisa on April 27,
1927 saying, “When Melanie was staying
with us, this elect creature had the gift of performing miracles, and she
bestowed several healings.
L. Bauer April 21,
2018
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