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Our Lady of La Salette (French: Notre-Dame de La Salette) is a Marian apparition reported by two French children, Maximin Giraud and Mélanie Calvat, to have occurred at La Salette-Fallavaux, France, in 1846. On 19 September 1851, the local bishop formally approved the public devotion and prayers to Our Lady of La Salette.
The La Salette Shrine in Attleboro is particularly well known for its Retreat Center and its "Festival of Lights" during the Christmas season which attracts over 250,000 visitors yearly. In Latin America , Africa, Australia and Asia, the community does missionary work in a number of countries, including Angola , Argentina , Bolivia , Brazil ...
La Salette-Fallavaux (French pronunciation: [la salɛt falavo]) is a commune in the Isère department in southeastern France. [3] The sanctuary of Our Lady of La Salette in the mountains above the village is a well-known pilgrimage site devoted to an 1846 Marian apparition .
On 19 September 1846, about three o'clock in the afternoon, on a mountain about three miles distant from the village of La Salette-Fallavaux, it is related that two children, a shepherdess of fifteen named Mélanie Calvat, called Mathieu, and a shepherd-boy of eleven named Maximin Giraud, both of them uneducated, beheld in a resplendent light a "beautiful lady" clad in a strange costume.
The Order of the Apostles of the Last Days is a Roman Catholic religious order proposed by the visionary Mélanie Calvat claiming guidance from Our Lady of La Salette at a private apparition on 19 September 1846 on the mountain at La Salette, Isère in France.
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From that moment on the shrine and monastery in Dębowiec became the mother church for the Missionaries of La Salette in Poland [3] Services in honour of Our Lady of La Salette were introduced in September 1923 and, as of 2017, are still currently held. The initiator of the services was Fr. Andrew Skibinski M.S. [1]
La Salette, Isère, a village in the commune La Salette-Fallavaux; Our Lady of La Salette, a pilgrimage location in La Salette, France; Notre-Dame-de-la-Salette, Quebec, a village and municipality in Outaouais region, Quebec, Canada; La Salette of Roxas, a private marian institution in Roxas, Isabela, Philippines. University of La Salette, a ...