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
4. to each of the children a special secret.
Soon several miraculous cures took place on the mountain of La Salette, and pilgrimages to the place were begun.
The miracle was questioned by notable ecclesiastics.
The Blessed Virgin is claimed to have revealed a special
5. a special secret to each of the children, which neither Melanie or Maximin ever made known to each other; they were sent by them in 1851 to Pius IX on the advice of Mgr de Bruillard.
It is unknown what impressions these mysterious revelations made on the pope,
5. for on this point there were two versions diametrically opposed to each other.
Maximin’s secret is not known, for it was never published. Melanie’s was inserted in its entirety in brochure which she herself had printed in 1879 at Lecce, Italy.
5. A lively controversy followed as to whether the secret published in 1879 was identical with that communicated to Pius IX in 1851, or in its second form it was not merely a work of the imagination.
The latter was the opinion of wise and prudent persons, who were persuaded
6. that a distinction must be made between the two Melanies, between the innocent and simple child of 1846 and the visionary of 1879, whose mind had been disturbed by reading apocalyptic books and the lives of illuminati.
7. Maximin Giraud died a holy death (March 1, 1875). Melanie Calvat died in Italy, on December 15, 1904. (Excerpts from Catholic Encyclopedia, 1913)
*the Blessed Virgin is said to have revealed to them a special secret*, sorry for the muddle in the thread.
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