THE APPEARANCE - That La Salette, which took place September 19, 1846 to two young shepherds, Melanie and Maximin Giraud Calvat, is a single apparition of the Virgin, that is shown crying and calling to conversion. This event was officially recognized by the Church through the Bishop Monsignor Bruilard, September 19, 1851, with the following statement: "We affirm that the apparition of the Blessed Virgin has in itself all the signs of truth, and that the faithful have good reason to believe without doubts and uncertainties ". The visit of the Madonna starts September 19, 1846, on the Sabbath to three in the afternoon while the boys are busy grazing cows on Mount Planeau. The shepherds saw a ball of light in the midst of a depression. They describe the phenomenon in these terms: "It was as if the sun falls into that place." In the bright light they saw a woman sitting with his elbows on his knees and his face hidden in her hands. The lady was dressed very simply, and wearing the clothing of local women. This created in the boys, who had never left their country, a sense of trust and familiarity. Despite its apparent simplicity, the Lady of light was shining on his head and wore a crown of rays and rose, hiding their hands in the sleeves of her dress.
MESSAGE - The weeping Madonna started talking to the boys in French, and in dialect: "Come My children, do not be afraid: I'm here to announce a great message. If My people will not submit, I have to let free the arm of My Son. It is so strong and so heavy that I can no longer support it. How long I suffer for you! Since I received the mission to pray without ceasing My Son, I do not abandon you, but you do not you notice. As you pray and you do, you can never compensate for the pain that I made for you. I have given six days to work, I have reserved the seventh, and I do not want to give. Is that weighs both the arm of My Son! Even the carriers do not know that blaspheme the name of My Son. These are the two things that weigh both the arm of My Son. If the crop fails, the fault is yours. I have made seeing last year with the potatoes you have not noticed. In fact when he found fault blasphemes the name of My Son. They will continue to rot and this year, at Christmas there will be no more .... " Melanie
not including the word "potato" and believed that Our Lady had said "apple." The Lady, realizing the difficulty of understanding of Melania, clarifies saying, "You do not understand, My children, I'll tell it another way: if you have the grain, not seminatelo. The seed sown will be eaten by insects and what will ripen fall in dust when typing. Sopraggiungerà a great famine. Before that children under seven years will be hit by quakes and die in the arms of those who hold them. Others will do penance by the famine. The nuts will spoil and rot the grapes. " The dialogue between the Lord and visionaries with the continued custody of a secret. After having communicated the secret to Melanie and Maximin Mrs. went on to say: "If they convert, the stones and rocks will change into heaps of wheat and potatoes will be born in the camps themselves." Our Lady of La Salette
This imagery means the time that God will grant great favors, if you look His holy law. The lady then asks the two shepherds: "Do good for your prayers, my children?". They frankly say: "Oh, no, sir: not too much." "Ah, my children must do it well, night and morning. When will not have time, say at least a 'Pater' and an 'Ave Maria', and when he can, tell us more. A listing should not be that some women already old. Other work on Sunday all summer, and the 'winter, when they do not know what to do, do not go putting that to make fun of religion. In Lent they go to butcher shop like dogs. "Then, confidently and maternally the Blessed Virgin asked the children to pray intensely. said that he rose from the ground to the Collet. At this point, the astonished gaze of Maximin and Melanie saw your picture away and blend with the light that it was wrapped, then the light also disappeared.
THE PROPHECY - The scourge came upon announced. The winter 1846 was very painful, especially for the poor. The Blessed Virgin had predicted that the potatoes would continue to fail and that by Christmas there would be no more. It was noted that indeed, the market's Corps, at Christmas of 1846, there were no more potatoes. Elsewhere were missing and were issued government regulations that prohibit the export.
A witness is not suspected, concerning Ireland, is that of Harland Manchester, and on page 39, of the December 1955 Selected by the magazine Reader's Digest, here it is: "One of the greatest disasters of modern times was the potato famine in Ireland. Potatoes were introduced there as soon complementary grain crop, it grew luxuriant, they were easy to sow, to harvest and cook ... and easy to hide, burying English invaders during the raids. In 1845 was the largest food crop in Ireland. That year the summer was cold and rainy, and the spots appeared on leaves of potato. Soon the mildew spread throughout Ireland and destroyed half the crop. The following year (1846) farmers planted seeds infected: the crop was fully and ruined the food needs of millions of people throughout the winter was lost in a few weeks. The disaster that followed was the worst to hit Ireland after the Black Death. Typhoid and other epidemics broke out, and it is estimated that one million people out of a population of eight million, die of hunger and disease. Millions more fled the country, at least half the United States. "
The Blessed Virgin had predicted that it would be a great famine which occurred. And truly, the grain became rare, its price, which in January 1847 was 29 francs per hectolitre, grew enormously. April 1847 was sold to 36-40 francs per hectolitre. In later years, wheat was spoiled by the disease culms called pictin, which reduced the powder grains. The vegetables rotted. In the spring you could see men, women and children go wandering the countryside in search of grass to eat.
The Holy Virgin had predicted that before the famine, children under seven years would be captured by a quake and would die in the arms of those who would be required. The Corps in fact infant mortality desolated area in 1847. From 1 January 1847 to April 12 of that year, about 1,500 residents of Corps, died thirty children and ten adults throughout the year ninety-nine people died, of which sixty-three were children. Massimino also fell ill but recovered. One of his brothers, what negatogli gave the bread from her stepmother, but he died. These were precisely captured by a small tremor following a severe cold and felt that after two or three hours of this mysterious agony he died. Their loved ones were powerless to bring them any relief. The coincidence of these scourges in the words of the heavenly messenger was too obvious, not to pay attention.
THE SECRET - the confidentiality, although the text was first published in 1879 with the imprimatur of the bishop of Lecce, Bishop Zola, the Holy See condemned by a decree of 9 May 1923, the book by Melanie entering him Index of Forbidden Books. It should be noted that the Church did not condemn the secret itself, that is the secret part of the message that Our Lady revealed to the visionaries in 1846, but only the version published in 1879 by Melanie. Already before 1923 the Holy See had tried to curb the spread of that version of the "secret" and other unofficial versions that circulated at that time, and the many writings that dealt with the "secret" had seen that these writings were used by some to attack the Church, also the many allegations that were born on it threatened to cause serious damage to the apparitions themselves. For these reasons, in 1915 the Holy Office had expressly prohibited the publication of any comment to the "secret of La Salette." The reason for this ban was prompted by the suspicion that it was different from the original one from the Virgin revealed to the shepherds and communicated to Pius IX in 1851. In
confidential hearing, Father Giraud, superior of the Missionaries of La Salette, Pius IX had expressed a desire to know something, if possible, about the secret, the Pope replied: "Do you know the secret of La Salette? Well, here's the secret of La Salette: if you do not repent you will all perish. " Here's all you can say, until now, well above the true content of the secrets of La Salette.
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DESCRIPTION OF THE SECOND MADANNA Melanie Calvat
the Blessed Virgin was very high and well proportioned. It seemed to be so light that a breath would be enough to make it move, but it was still and very stable. His appearance was majestic, impressive as they are the lords of this land. Timidity imposed a respectful, while his majesty, which imposed respect mixed with love, attracted to you His eyes were sweet and penetrating, his eyes seemed to speak with my parents, but the conversation came from a deep and lively sense of 'love this attractive that I melted. The sweetness of your eyes, the air of incomprehensible goodness made to understand and feel that she drew him to give himself. It was an expression of love that can not be expressed in words and even the letters of the alphabet. The habit of the Holy Virgin. was white and silver, very bright. He had nothing material, was made of light and glory varied and sparkling. On land there are no terms or you can make comparisons. The Most Holy Virgin. it was all beautiful and all done with love. Look, I languished for melt in you From His ornaments, such as from him, leaked from all the majesty, the splendor, the magnificence shining, light, fresh and new like a virgin. It seemed that the word love would escape from his lips and silver as well. He had the appearance of a loving mother, full of goodness, kindness, love for us, of compassion and mercy. The crown of roses on his head was so beautiful, so brilliant potersene not get the idea. The roses of various colors, were not of this earth. It was a collection of flowers that surrounded the head of the Holy Virgin. in the form of its crown, but the roses changed and returned. Then, from the center of each rose, came a light so beautiful that kidnapped, and causeth their beauty to shine. From the crown of roses came out as the branches of many small flowers and gold mixed with diamonds. The whole formed a tiara that shone more than our own sun terreno.La Virgin carried a precious Cross suspended from the neck. This cross seemed golden, gold I tell not to say a piece of gold. At times I have seen objects with some golden hues, what he did to me a more than just a piece of gold. This beautiful Cross full of light, there was Christ Our Lord with outstretched arms on the Cross. Almost at the two ends of the Cross, there was a hammer on one side and the other a bite. Christ was flesh-colored natural but shone with great splendor, and the light coming out of his whole body seemed to me like darts brightly inflamed heart with the desire to lose myself in Him Sometimes the Christ appeared to be dead, her head tilted and the body relaxed and almost fell if it had not been retained by the nails that were fixed on the Cross. I had a vivid compassione.Avrei I wanted to tell the world your unknown love and instill in the souls of mortals, the most heartfelt love and deepest gratitude to a God who did not absolutely need us to be what it is, what was and what always will be. And yet, oh love is incomprehensible to man, became man, he wanted to die, you die in order better to write in our souls and in our memory the crazy love he has for us. Oh! How do I feel unhappy to note the poverty of expression in my report to the love of Our Savior's good for us. But then as we are happy to hear better what we can not express. Other times, the Christ appeared alive. Her head erect, eyes open and appeared on the Cross of His will. Sometimes it even seemed that he spoke, seemed to show that he was on the cross for us, for our sake, to draw us to His love, which always has a new love for us. His love of the beginning of the year 33, it is always that of today and will be sempre.Mentre me about the Holy Virgin. crying all the time. Her tears fell slowly one after the other, far above the knees, then, like sparks of light, disappeared. They were beautiful and full of love, I wanted to comfort her and make her cry but I felt that she needed to show his tears in order to better express your love forgotten by men. I wanted to throw me in His arms and say, "My Good Mother do not cry, I will love you for all the men on Earth, "but I thought I responded" There are many who do not know me. " I was between death and life on the one hand seeing all the love, the desire to be loved and the other great coldness and indifference. Oh! My mother all beautiful and so sweet, my love, my heart of hearts. The tears of our tender Mother, far from reducing Her Majesty the Queen and Sovereign, but seemed to make it more beautiful, more powerful, more loving, more maternal, more attractive. I would eat her tears that made my heart leap with compassion and love. To see a mother cry, and such a Mother, without using all possible means to comfort, to change your pain into joy, one can understand? Oh! Mother, more than good, you have been made with all the prerogatives which God is able. You have, in a sense, out of the power of God You are good and still good the goodness of God himself. God form, as his masterpiece heavenly and earthly, has been made even more grande.La Holy Virgin. He had a yellow apron, but I say yellow? She had her apron brighter than most just put together. It was not a material but a material composed of Gloria, Gloria, and this was resplendent beauty that enraptured. Everything in the Holy Virgin carried me to adore and love my Jesus in all the details of His mortal life. The Most Holy Virgin. He had two chains, one a bit 'wider than the other. In the closer the cross was suspended that I mentioned above. These chains, I can not call them otherwise, they were like rays of glory, a large and varied light that spark. The shoes, as so must call them, were white, but a silvery white, shiny and round, there were roses. These roses were of a dazzling beauty and the center of each flame went out as a beautiful light and pleasant. The shoes there was a brooch of gold, but gold is not of this world but the vision of the Virgin Paradiso.La SS. was in itself an entire Paradise. She was carrying everything he could to give satisfaction because you forgot this Earth. The Virgin was surrounded by two lights. The nearest to you first came to us and shone with the greatest splendor. The second light will spread a little 'round the most beautiful lady and we are immersed in it and was still, and that did not shine much brighter than the sun of our land. All these lights do not hurt the eyes and eye strain. Besides these lights and all this splendor, there were other light or other rays of the sun as if it were born from the Virgin's body, his clothes, everywhere. The voice of the beautiful lady was sweet, enchanted, enraptured and was good for the heart, saziava, smooth out any obstacle, it soothed, softened. I felt like I wanted knowledge and saziarmi of her beautiful voice and my heart seemed to want to dance or meet for Lei.Gli pine in the eyes of the SS. Virgin, our tender Mother, can not be described by human language. Should talk to a seraph, even more, should be the language of God, the God who formed the Immaculate Virgin masterpiece of His omnipotence. The eyes of the empress Maria seemed a thousand times more beautiful than diamonds, diamonds, precious stones and innovative, shone like two suns, were the same as sweet as honey, clear as a mirror. In those eyes you could see Heaven, attracted to her, it seemed that she wanted to give themselves and attract. The more I looked, the more I wanted look, the more I looked the most loved and the beloved with all my strength. The eyes of the beautiful Immaculate were like God's door, where you could see everything that could intoxicate the soul. When my eyes met with those of the Mother of God and I felt inside me a happy revolution of love and a protest of love and of yearning for love. Looking at our eyes to the way they were talking so much that I wanted to embrace the beloved precisely the same depths of those eyes that seemed to attract the soul and soften and melt it with his. His eyes conveyed a fresh tremor in my whole being and I was afraid to make the slightest movement for fear that Could be the least unpleasant. The mere sight of His eyes would have been enough to make up the Heaven of a blessed, would be enough to let a soul in the fullness of the will of all the events that happen in the course of mortal life. It would have been enough to make this soul acts of praise, thanksgiving, reparation, espiazione.Questa vision focuses only on the soul and God makes it look like a living death that all earthly things, even those that seem more serious, as if they were simple toys of children. The soul would only hear about God and all that concerns His glory. Sin is the only evil She sees on earth, if God does not asserted would die of grief. Amen.
