Explore with the Miracle Hunter: Our Lady of La Salette

In September 19, 1846, two young shepherds, Mélanie Mathieu and Maximin Giraud, guarded their herds on a mountain near the village of La Salette-Fallavaux. They saw a lady in tears who had descended from the sky in a globe of light and spoke to them. On the evening of the apparition, they talked about it to their masters. Widow Pra, mistress of Mélanie, thought that they had seen the Blessed Virgin and the children were urged to tell the priest of La Salette everything. They did it the next day, Sunday morning. The priest wept with emotion, took notes and, again in tears, spoke of the fact in his sermon.

On 19 September 1851, the local bishop formally approved the public devotion and prayers to Our Lady of La Salette. On 21 August 1879, Pope Leo XIII granted a canonical coronation to the image now located within the Basilica of Our Lady of La Salette.

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