Feast Day
The feast day of Our Lady of La Salette is September 19.
Her Story
On 19 September 1846, in the mountain pastures above the village of La Salette in Isère, two shepherd children, Maximin Giraud and Mélanie Calvat, said they had met a ‘Beautiful Lady’ in tears, all in light. She entrusted them with a message of conversion, for ‘all her people’.
After 5 years of rigorous investigation, the bishop of Grenoble, Mgr Philibert de Bruillard, issued a mandate recognising the authenticity of the apparition.
Two children spoke of having met with a ‘Beautiful Lady’ in the countryside where their cows were grazing, above the village of La Salette. Maximin Giraud was 11 and Melanie Calvat 14.
At first seated and weeping, the ‘Beautiful Lady’ stood up and, in
French and in local dialect, she spoke to them for a long time
about her Son, drawing examples from their own lives. She
gave them a Message and told them to ensure that it was
passed on to all of the people.
The light in which she wasbathed and which enfolded all three of them came from a large crucifix which she wore upon her chest, bearing also a hammer and pliers on the cross bar. She was wearing a heavy chain upon her shoulders and, to the side, roses. Her head, her body and her feet were surrounded by roses. Then the ‘Beautiful Lady’ moved up a short steep rise and disappeared into the light.