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OUR LADY OF LA SALETTE - 19th SEPTEMBER

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1. La Salette (Diocese of Grenoble, France) is celebrated as the place where, it is said, the Blessed Virgin appeared to two little shepherds on September 19, 1846,

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2. Melanie Calvat, 15, and a shepherd-boy of eleven named Maximin Giraud, both of them very ignorant, beheld in a resplendent light a "beautiful lady" clad in a strange costume.

Speaking alternately in French and in patois, she charged them with a message which they were
3. "to deliver to all her people". After complaining of the impiety of Christians, and threatening them with dreadful chastisements in case they should persevere in evil, she promised them the Divine mercy if they would amend.

Finally, it is alleged, before disappearing she
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ST JANUARIUS, BISHOP AND MARTYR - #SEP19

1. The 4th century martyrs St Januarius, Bishop of Beneventum, St Festus, his deacon, St Desiderius, lector or reader, St Sosius, deacon of the Church of Misenum, St Proculus, deacon of Puzzuoli, and two other Christians,
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2. were seized during the persecution under Diocletian, imprisoned and beheaded in 304.

The body of St Januarius (#SanGennaro) was buried in the church of Naples, of which city he has become the Patron Saint.
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3. The yearly liquefaction of some of his blood preserved in a phial is a well-known miracle, and has resulted in the conversion of countless sinners to a better life. (From: "Book of Saints", Monks of Ramsgate)

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