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Our lady of lasalette
Apparitions to Melanie and Maximin, 1846
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The MOTHER OF GOD, MARY MOST HOLY, - Ever Virgin appeared here in 1846 A.D.
- This Basilica was built
- in Her Honour at LaSalette, France.
- 'Our Lady of LaSalette'. Due to countless Miracles,
- Her Apparitions and Messages are approved
- by The Roman Catholic Church. The following Secret was given by Our Lady to two shepherd children, Melanie Calvat and Maximin Giraud on September 19, 1846. Published in Leece, France, on Nov. 15, 1879 with Imprimatur by Bishop Zola.
The Message of Our Lady of LaSalette
given September 19, 1846
"...I couldn't see the cows,
so I called Maximin and climbed up the little mound.
From there I could see our cows grazing peacefully
and I was on my way down,
with Maximin on his way up, when all at once
I saw a beautiful LIGHT shining
more brightly than the SUN.
'Maximin do you see what is over there ?'
...Something inconceivably fantastic
passed through me in that moment
and I felt myself being drawn.
I felt a great respect, full of
love, and my heart beat faster.
I kept my eyes firmly fixed on this LIGHT,
which was static, and as if it had opened up,
I caught sight of another,
much more brilliant LIGHT which
was moving, and in this LIGHT I saw
a most beautiful LADY sitting on top
of our Paradise,
with Her Head in Her Hands.
This Beautiful Lady stood up;
She cooly crossed Her Arms
while watching us, and said to us:
"Come, My children, fear not,
I am here to
PROCLAIM GREAT NEWS
to you."
These soft and sweet words
made me FLY to Her,
and my heart desired to
attach itself to Her forever !
When I was up close
to the Beautiful Lady,
in front of Her to Her right,
She began to speak
and from Her Beautiful Eyes
TEARS also started to flow.
"If My people do not wish
to submit themselves,
I am forced to let go of the
HAND of My SON.
It is heavy
and weighs Me down so much
I can no longer keep hold of it!
I have suffered all of the time
for the rest of you !
If you do not wish
My SON to abandon you,
I must take it upon Myself
to PRAY for this continually.
And the rest of you think little of this.
In vain you will pray, in vain you will act,
and you will never be able to make up for
the trouble I have taken over
for the rest of you.
I gave you six days to WORK;
I kept the seventh for Myself,
and no one wishes to grant it to Me.
This is what weighs down
The ARM of My SON so much.
Those who drive carts cannot speak
without putting
The NAME of My SON
in the middle !
These are the two things
which weigh down
THE ARM of MY SON so much.
If the harvest is spoiled,
it is only because of the
rest of you.
I made you see this last year
with the potatoes,
you took little account of this.
It was quite the opposite
when you found bad potatoes,
you swore oaths, and you included
The NAME of My SON.
They will continue to go BAD,
at Christmas there will be none left."
"If you have corn, you must now sow it.
The beasts will eat all you sow.
And all that grows will fall to dust
when you thresh it.
A GREAT FAMINE will come.
Before the FAMINE comes,
children under the age of seven
will begin to tremble and will DIE
in the arms of those who hold them.
The others will
do PENANCE through HUNGER.
The nuts will go BAD,
the grapes will become ROTTEN."
'At this point, the Beautiful Lady,
Who was entrancing me,
for a moment did not make Herself heard.
I could see, however, that She was continuing,
as if speaking, to move graciously Her kindly lips.
At this moment, Maximin was receiving his
SECRET.
Then, turning to me,
The Most Holy Virgin
spoke to me and gave me
a SECRET in French.
Here is this SECRET in its entirety
as She gave it to me.'
"Melanie, what I am about to tell
you now will not always be a SECRET.
You may make it PUBLIC in 1858.
"The priests, ministers of My Son,
the priests, by their wicked lives,
by their irreverence and their impiety
in the celebration of the Holy Mysteries,
by their love of money,
their love of honors and pleasures,
the priests have
become cesspools of impurity.
Yes, the priests are asking VENGEANCE,
and Vengeance is hanging over their heads.
WOE to the priests
and to those dedicated to GOD
who by their unfaithfulness
and their wicked lives are
CRUCIFYING
My SON again!
The SINS of those dedicated to GOD
cry out towards Heaven
and call for Vengeance,
and now Vengeance
is at their door,
for there is no one left
to BEG MERCY and
FORGIVENESS for the people.
There are no more generous souls;
there is no one left worthy
of offering a stainless sacrifice
to The Eternal
for the sake of the world.
GOD WILL STRIKE
in an unprecedented way !
" WOE to the inhabitants
of the earth !
GOD will exhaust His WRATH
upon them and no one
will be able to ESCAPE so
many AFFLICTIONS together.
The Chiefs,
the Leaders of the people of GOD
have neglected PRAYER
and PENANCE,
and the devil has be-dimmed
their intelligence.
They have become wandering stars
which the old devil
will drag along with his tail
to make them PERISH.
GOD will allow the old SERPENT
to cause divisions among those who reign
in every society and in every family.
Physical and moral agonies will be suffered.
God will abandon mankind to itself
and will send PUNSIHMENTS
which will follow one after another
for more than thirty five years.
The Society of men is on the eve of the
most terrible SCOURGES
and of gravest events.
Mankind must expect to be ruled
with an iron rod and to drink from
The Chalice of The
WRATH of GOD.
May the curate of My SON,
Pope Pius IX never leave ROME
again after 1859;
may he, however,
be steadfast and noble,
may he fight with the
weapons of FAITH and LOVE.
I will be at his side.
May he be on his guard against Napoleon:
he is two-faced, and when he wishes to
make himself Pope as well as Emperor,
GOD will soon draw back from him.
He is the master-mind who,
always wanting to ascend further,
will fall on the sword he wished
to use to force his people to be
raised up.
Italy will be punished for her ambition
in wanting to shake off
the yoke of
The LORD OF LORDS.
And so she will be left to fight a
WAR;
BLOOD will FLOW on all sides.
CHURCHES will be locked up
or DESECRATED.
Priests and Religious Orders
will be hunted down,
and made to DIE
a cruel death.
Several will abandon the Faith,
and a great number of priests
and members of religious orders
will break away from the True Religion;
among these people
there will even be bishops.
May the Pope guard against
the performers of miracles.
For the time has come when the
most astonishing WONDERS
will take place on the earth
and in the air.
In the year 1864,
Lucifer together with a large
number of DEMONS
will be unloosed from HELL;
they will put an end to Faith little
by little, even in those dedicated to
GOD.
They will BLIND them in such a way, that,
unless they are blessed with a
special GRACE, these people will take on
the spirit of these angels of
Hell;
several religious institutions
will lose all Faith and will LOSE many
souls.
Evil books will be abundant on earth
and the spirits of DARKNESS
will spread everywhere
a universal
slackening of all that concerns
the Service of GOD.
They will have great POWER over Nature:
there will be churches built to serve
these spirits. People will be transported
from one place to another by these evil spirits,
even priests,
for they will not have been guided by
the good Spirit of the Gospel which is
a spirit of humility, charity and
zeal for the Glory of GOD.
On occasions, the DEAD and the
righteous will be brought back to life.
(That is to say that these dead will take on
the form of righteous souls
which had lived on earth,
in order to lead men
further astray; these so-called
resurrected dead, who will be nothing
but the DEVIL in this form,
will preach another gospel contrary
to that of the
True Jesus Christ,
denying the existence of Heaven;
that is also to say,
the souls of the damned.
All these souls will appear as
if fixed to their bodies).
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Everywhere there will be
extraordinary wonders,
as true Faith has faded and
false light brightens the people.
WOE TO THE PRINCES OF
THE CHURCH who think only
of piling riches upon riches
to protect their authority
and dominate with pride.
The Vicar of My SON
will suffer a great deal,
because for a while
The Church will yield to large
PERSECUTION ,
a time of Darkness and
The Church will witness a
FRIGHTFUL CRISIS.
The True Faith to The Lord
having been forgotten,
each individual will want to be
on his own and be superior
to people of same identity,
they will abolish civil rights
as well as Ecclesiastical,
all order and all justice would be
trampled underfoot and only
homocides, hate, jealousy,
lies and dissension would
be seen without love for country or family.
The Holy Father will suffer a great deal.
I will be with him until the end
and receive his sacrifice.
The mischievous would attempt his life
several times to
do harm and shorten his days
but neither him nor his successor
will see the Triumph of
The Church of GOD.
All the civil governments will have one
and the same plan,
which will be to ABOLISH and do away with
every religious principle to make way
for materialism, Atheism, spiritualism
and VICE of all kinds.
In the year 1865, there will be
desecration of holy places.
In convents, the flowers of The Church
will decompose and the devil will resort
to all his evil tricks to introduce sinners
into religious orders,
for disorder and the love of carnal pleasures
will be spread all over the earth.
France, Italy, Spain and England will be
at WAR.
BLOOD WILL FLOW
IN THE STREETS.
Frenchman will fight Frenchman,
Italian will fight Italian.
A general WAR will follow
which will be appalling.
For a time, GOD will cease to remember
France and Italy because
The Gospel of Jesus Christ
has been
forgotten.
The wicked will make use of
all their evil ways.
Men will KILL each other;
massacre each other
even in their homes.
At the first blow of
His Thundering SWORD,
the mountains and all Nature
will Tremble in TERROR,
for the disorders and crimes of men
have pierced the Vault of the heavens.
Paris will burn and Marseilles
will be engulfed.
Several cities will be shaken down
and swallowed up by
EARTHQUAKES.
People will believe that ALL is LOST.
Nothing will be seen but MURDER,
nothing will be heard but
the clash of arms and BLASPHEMY.
The righteous will suffer greatly.
Their prayers, their penances and
their tears will rise up to Heaven and
all of GOD's people will
BEG for FORGIVENESS and MERCY
and will PLEAD for
My help and intercession.
And then JESUS CHRIST,
in an Act of His JUSTICE
and His Great MERCY
will command His Angels
to have all His Enemies
put to DEATH.
Suddenly, the Persecutors of
The Church of Jesus Christ
and all those given over to SIN
will PERISH
and the earth will
become desert-like.
And then Peace will be made,
and man will be
reconciled with GOD.
Jesus Christ will be served,
worshiped and glorified.
Charity will flourish everywhere.
The new Kings will be the right arm of
the Holy Church, which will be
strong, humble, and pious in Its poor
but fervent imitation
of the virtues of
Jesus Christ.
The Gospel
will be preached everywhere
and mankind will make
great progress in its faith,
for there will be UNITY
among the workers of Jesus Christ
and man will live in fear of GOD.
This peace among man will be short-lived.
Twenty-five years of plentiful harvests
will make them forget that
the sins of men are cause
of all the
troubles on this earth.
A forerunner of the ANTICHRIST,
with his troops
gathered from several nations,
will fight against
the True Christ,
the only SAVIOR
of the world.
He will shed much BLOOD and
will want to annihilate the
worship of GOD to make himself
be looked upon as a god.
The earth will be struck by calamities
of all kinds (in addition to
PLAGUE and FAMINE
which will be WIDE-SPREAD).
There will be series of WARS
until the last WAR, which will then
be fought by the TEN KINGS
of the ANTICHRIST,
all of whom will have one
and the same plan
and will be the
only RULERS of the world.
Before this comes to pass, there will be a
kind of false peace in the world.
People will think of nothing
but amusement.
The wicked will give themselves
over to all kinds of SINS.
But the children of the Holy Church,
the children of My faith,
My true followers,
they will grow in their Love for GOD
and in all the virtues
most precious to Me.
BLESSED are the souls humbly
guided by The Holy Spirit !
I shall FIGHT at their side until
they reach a fullness of years.
Nature is asking for VENGEANCE
because of Man, and she trembles
with dread at what must happen
to the earth stained with CRIME.
TREMBLE, earth, and you who
proclaim yourselves as serving
Jesus Christ and who, on the inside,
ONLY ADORE YOURSELVES,
tremble, for GOD
will hand you over to His Enemy,
because the Holy places
are in a state of corruption.
Many convents are no longer
Houses of GOD,
but the grazing grounds
of Asmodeas and his like.
It will be during this time
that the ANTICHRIST
will be born of a Hebrew nun,
a false virgin
who will communicate with
the old SERPENT,
the master of impurity,
his father will be B.
At birth, he will spew out BLASPHEMY;
he will have teeth, in a word;
he will be the DEVIL incarnate.
He will scream horribly,
he will perform wonders;
he will feed on nothing but impurity.
He will have brothers who,
although not devils incarnate like him,
will be children of Evil.
At the age of twelve,
they will draw attention upon themselves
by the gallant victories they will have won;
soon they will each lead armies,
aided by the legions of
HELL.
The seasons will be altered,
the earth will produce nothing but bad fruit,
the stars will lose their regular motion,
and the moon will only reflect
a faint reddish glow.
WATER and FIRE will give the earth's globe
CONVULSIONS
and terrible EARTHQUAKES
which will swallow up mountains, cities, etc...
ROME Will LOSE
THE FAITH
and become the
Seat of ANTICHRIST !
The demons of the air together with
the Antichrist will perform
great wonders on earth
and in the atmosphere,
and men will become
more and more perverted.
GOD will take care of His faithful servants
and men of good will.
The Gospel will be preached everywhere,
and all peoples of all nations
will get to know the TRUTH.
I make an URGENT APPEAL
to the earth.
I call on the true disciples
of the Living GOD
Who reigns in Heaven;
I call on the true followers of
Christ made Man,
the only true Savior of men;
I call on My children,
the true faithful,
those who have given themselves
to Me so that I may lead them to
My Divine SON,
those whom I carry in My Arms,
so to speak, those who have lived on
My Spirit.
Finally, I call on the
Apostles of The LAST DAYS,
the faithful disciples of
Jesus Christ
who have lived in scorn for the world
and for themselves,
in poverty and in humility,
in scorn and in silence,
in prayer and in mortification,
in chastity and in union with GOD,
in suffering and unknown to the world.
It is time they came out
and filled the world with LIGHT.
GO and reveal yourselves
as My cherished children.
I am at your side and within you,
provided that your FAITH is the LIGHT
which shines upon you
in these unhappy days.
May your ZEAL make you famished
for the Glory and the Honour of
JESUS CHRIST.
FIGHT, Children of LIGHT,
you the few who can see.
For now is the time of all times,
the end of all ends.
The CHURCH will be
in ECLIPSE,
the world will be in dismay.
But now
ENOCH and ELI will come,
filled with the Spirit of GOD.
They will PREACH
with the MIGHT of GOD,
and men of good will
will believe in GOD,
and many souls will be comforted.
They will make great steps forward
through the virtue of
The Holy Spirit
and will condemn the devilish
lapses of the Antichrist.
WOE
to the inhabitants of the earth !
There will be BLOODY WARS
and FAMINES,
PLAGUES and
INFECTIOUS DISEASES.
It will RAIN with a fearful
HAIL of ANIMALS.
There will be
THUNDERSTORMS
which will SHAKE cities,
EARTHQUAKES
which will SWALLOW UP
countries.
VOICES will be heard in the air.
Men will beat their heads against
walls, call for their death,
and on another side
DEATH will be their TORMENT.
BLOOD WILL FLOW
on ALL sides.
Who will be the victor
if GOD does not shorten
the length of the TEST ?
All the BLOOD,
the TEARS and
PRAYERS of the righteous,
GOD will relent.
ENOCH and ELI
will be put to death.
Pagan ROME will disappear.
THE FIRE OF HEAVEN
will FALL and CONSUME
three cities.
ALL the UNIVERSE
will be STRUCK with
TERROR
and many will let themselves
be lead ASTRAY
because they have not
worshiped the TRUE CHRIST
Who lives among them.
It is TIME;
the SUN is Darkening;
ONLY FAITH
WILL SURVIVE.
NOW IS THE TIME;
The ABYSS is opening.
Here is the
King of Kings of Darkness;
here is The BEAST
with his subjects,
calling himself
the Savior of the world.
He will rise proudly into the air
to go to Heaven.
He will be SMOTHERED by the
BREATH of The Archangel
Saint Michael.
He will FALL, and the earth,
which will have been in a continuous
series of EVOLUTIONS
for THREE DAYS,
will open its FIERY BOWELS;
and he will have PLUNGED
for ALL ETERNITY
with all his followers into the
EVERLASTING CHASMS of HELL.
And then WATER and FIRE
will PURGE the earth and
CONSUME ALL the WORKS
of men's pride and
ALL WILL BE RENEWED.
GOD will be SERVED
and GLORIFIED."
'Then The Holy Virgin gave me,
also in French,
The RULE of a New Religious Order.
When She had given me
the RULE of this New Religious Order,
The Holy Virgin continued the speech in
the same manner 3:
"If they CONVERT,
the stones and rocks will change into wheat,
and potatoes will be found sown in the earth.
Do you say your prayers properly,
My children ?"
We both replied: "Oh! no, Madame,
not so much."
"Oh! My children,
you must say them morning and evening.
When you can do no more,
say a Pater and an Ave Maria;
and when you have the time to do better,
you will say more."
"Only a few old women go to MASS;
in the summer,
the rest work all day SUNDAY
and in the winter,
when they are at a loose end,
they only go to MASS to make fun of religion.
During LENT, they go to the butcher's
like hungry dogs."
"Have you ever seen any spoilt wheat,
My children ? 'We both answered:
"Oh no, Madame."
The Holy Virgin turned to Maximin, saying:
"But you, My child, you must have seen
some once near le 'Coin', with your father.
The farmer said to your father:
'Come and see how my wheat's gone
bad !' You went to see.
Your father took two or three ears in his hand,
rubbed them, and they fell to dust.
Then, on your way back, when you were
no more than half an hour
away from Corps,
your father gave you a piece of bread,
and said: 'Take it, eat it while you can, my son,
for I don't know who will be eating anything
next year if the wheat is spoiled like that !' "
'Maximin replied: "It's quite true, Madame,
I didn't remember."
The Most Holy Virgin brought Her speech to a
n end in French.'
"And so, My children,
YOU WILL PASS THIS ON
TO ALL MY PEOPLE."
'The Most BEAUTIFUL LADY
crossed the stream,
and after two more steps,
without turning back towards us,
who were following
Her (for we were DRAWN to Her
by Her Brilliance and even more by
Her Kindness which elated me,
which seemed to MELT my heart),
She repeated to us:
"And so, My children,
YOU WILL PASS THIS ON
TO ALL MY PEOPLE."
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'Then, She walked on up to the place where I had gone to see our cows. Her feet touched nothing but the tips of the grass and without bending them. Once on the top of the little mound, the BEAUTIFUL LADY stopped, and I hurried to stand in front of Her to look at Her so, so closely, and try to see which path She was most inclined to take. For it was all over for me. I had forgotten both my cows and the masters I worked for.
I had linked myself forever and unconditionally to
my LADY. Yes, I wanted never, never to leave Her.
I followed Her with no other motive and fully
disposed to serve Her for the rest of my life.
In the presence of my Lady, I felt I had forgotten paradise. I thought of nothing more but to serve Her in every way possible; and I felt I could have done everything She could have asked me to do, for it seemed to me that She had a great deal of POWER.
She looked at me with a tender Kindness which
drew me to Her. I could have thrown myself into Her Arms with my eyes closed. She did not give me the time to do so. She rose imperceptibly from the ground to a height of around four feet or more; and, hanging thus in the air for a split second, my BEAUTIFUL LADY looked up to Heaven,
then down on the earth to Her right and then Her left 4, then She looked at me with Her Eyes so soft,
so kind and so good that I felt She was drawing me inside Her, and my heart seemed to open up to Hers.
And as my heart melted away, sweetly gladdened, the Beautiful Face of my good Lady disappeared little by little. It seemed to me that the LIGHT in motion was growing stronger, or rather condensing around The Most Holy Virgin, to prevent me from seeing Her any longer. And thus LIGHT
took the place of the parts of Her Body which were disappearing in front of my eyes; or rather it seemed to me that the Body of my Lady was melting into
LIGHT.
Thus the SPHERE of LIGHT rose gently towards the right. I cannot say whether the volume of LIGHT decreased as She rose, or whether the growing distance made me see less and less LIGHT as She rose. What I do know, is that I was a long time with my head raised up, staring at the LIGHT, even after the LIGHT, which kept getting further away and decreasing in volume, had finally disappeared.
I take my eyes from the firmament, I look around me. I see Maximin looking at me, and I say to him:
"Maxi, that must have been my father's
Good Lord, or The Holy Virgin,
or some other great Saint"5.
And Maximin throws his arms into the air and says:
"Oh! If only I'd known!" '
'...The 20th of September, the day after the
Apparition, I left early in the morning with Maximin. When we reached the presbytery,
I knocked at the door. The priest's housekeeper came and opened the door and asked us what we wanted.
I said to her (in French, and I, who had never spoken French),
"We would like to speak to Father Perrin."
"And what have you got to say to him? she asked.
"We wish to tell him, Miss, that yesterday we went up to watch over our cows on Baisses Mountain and after dinner, etc...etc."
We recounted a good piece of The Most Holy Virgin's words. Then the church-bell rang: it was the final call for MASS. Fr. Perrin, the parish priest of La Salette, who had heard us, flung open his door; he was in tears and was beating his chest. He said to us:
"My children, we are LOST.
GOD will punish us. Oh! Good Lord!
It was The Holy Virgin
Who appeared to you!"
And he left to say Holy Mass. We looked at each other, Maximin, the housekeeper, and I. Then Maximin said to me:
"Me, I'm off home to my father in Corps",
and we parted company.'
'...Mass begins and after the first reading from the Gospel, Father Perrin turns to the congregation and tries to recount to his parishioners, the story of the Apparition which had just taken place, the day before, on one of their mountains, and he URGES them
to STOP WORKING ON SUNDAYS.
His voice was broken with sobs, and all the congregation was greatly moved. After Holy Mass, I went back to my masters to work. Mr. Peytard, who still today is the mayor of La Salette 6 came to question me on the Apparition, and when he had made sure that I was speaking the truth, he went away convinced. I stayed on in the service of my masters until All Saint's Day. Then I was boarded with the nuns of Providence, in my home town of Corps.'
'The Most Holy Virgin was tall
and well-proportioned.
She seemed so light that a mere breath could have stirred Her, yet She was motionless and perfectly balanced. Her Face was Majestic, imposing,
but not imposing in the manner of the lords here below. She compelled a respectful fear.
At the same time as Her Majesty compelled
respect mingled with Love, She drew near to me.
Her Gaze was soft and penetrating.
Her Eyes seemed to speak to mine, but the conversation came out of a deep and vivid feeling
of LOVE for this ravishing BEAUTY Who was liquefying me. The softness of Her Gaze,
Her air of incomprehensible GOODNESS
made me understand and feel that She was DRAWING me to Her and wanted to give Herself.
It was an expression of LOVE which cannot be expressed with the tongue of the flesh, nor with the letters of the alphabet.
The Clothing of The Most Holy Virgin was silver white and quite brilliant. It was quite intangible.
It was made up of LIGHT and GLORY, sparkling and dazzling. There is no expression nor comparison to be found on earth.
The Holy Virgin
was all BEAUTY and all LOVE;
the sight of Her overwhelmed me.
In Her finery as in Her Person,
everything radiated with MAJESTY,
the SPLENDOUR, the MAGNIFICENCE
of a QUEEN beyond compare.
She seemed as White, IMMACULATE,
Crystalized, Dazzling, Heavenly,
fresh and new as a VIRGIN.
The word LOVE seemed to slip from
Her Pure and Silvery Lips.
She appeared to me like a Good MOTHER,
full of Kindness, Amiablilty,
of Love for us,
of Compassion and MERCY.
The CROWN of ROSES
which She had placed on Her Head
was so beautiful, so brilliant,
that it defies imagination.
The different colored Roses were not of this earth;
it was a joining together of flowers which
crowned the Head of The Most Holy Virgin.
But the Roses kept changing and replacing each other, and then, from the heart of each Rose,
there shone a beautiful entrancing LIGHT,
which gave the Roses a shimmering beauty.
From the Crown of Roses there seemed to arise golden branches and a number of little flowers mingled with the shining ones. The whole thing formed a most beautiful DIADEM, which alone shone brighter than our earth's SUN.
The Holy Virgin had a most pretty CROSS
hanging around Her Neck. This Cross seemed golden, (I say golden rather than gold-plated, for I have sometimes seen objects which were golden with varying shades of gold, which had a much more beautiful effect on my eyes than simple gold-plate).
On this shining, beautiful Cross, there was a CHRIST; it was Our Lord on the Cross.
Near both ends of the Cross there was a hammer, and at the other end, a pair of tongs.
The CHRIST was skin-colored, but He shone dazzingly;
and the LIGHT shone forth from
His Holy Body seemed like brightly shining darts
which pierced my heart with
the desire to melt inside Him.
At times, the Christ appeared to be dead.
His Head was bent forward and His Body
seemed to give way, as if about to fall,
had He not been held back by the Nails
which held Him to the Cross.
I felt a deep compassion and would have liked to
tell His unknown LOVE to the whole world,
and to let seep into mortal souls the most heart felt Love and Gratitude towards a GOD Who
had no need whatsoever of us
to be everything He is,
was and always will be.
And yet, O LOVE that men cannot understand,
He made Himself Man,
and wanted to DIE, yes, DIE,
so as to better inscribe in our souls
and in our memory,
the Passionate LOVE He has for us!
Oh, how wretched am I to find myself so poor
in any expression of the
Love of Our Good SAVIOR for us!
But, in another way, how happy we are to be able
to feel more deeply that which we cannot express!
At other times, the Christ appeared to be ALIVE.
His Head was erect, His Eyes Open,
and He seemed to be on The CROSS
of His Own accord.
At times too, He appeared to SPEAK:
He seemed to show that He was on the CROSS
for our sake, out of LOVE for us,
to DRAW us to His LOVE ,
and that He always has more LOVE to GIVE us,
that His LOVE in the beginning
and in the year 33
is always that of today and will be for ever more.
The Holy Virgin was CRYING
nearly the whole time She was speaking to me.
Her TEARS Flowed gently, one by one,
down to Her Knees,
then, like SPARKS of LIGHT ,
they disappeared.
They were glittering and full of LOVE .
I would have liked to COMFORT Her
and stop Her Tears.
But it seemed to me that She needed the Tears
to show better Her LOVE forgotten by men.
I would have liked to throw myself
into Her Arms and say to Her:
"My Kind Mother, do not CRY !
I want to Love You for all men on earth,"
But She seemed to be saying to me:
"There are so many who know Me not. !"
'I was in between Life and Death, and on one side,
I saw so much desire by this Mother to be Loved,
and on another side, so much COLD and
INDIFFERENCE...Oh! My Mother,
Most Beautiful and Lovable Mother,
my Love, Heart of my heart!
The TEARS of our Sweet Mother, far from lessening Her air of Majesty, of a QUEEN
and a Mistress, seemed, on the contrary, to embellish Her, to make Her more Beautiful,
more Powerful, more filled with Love, more Maternal, more Ravishing, and I could have wiped away Her Tears which made my heart leap with Compassion and Love.
To see a Mother CRY, and such a Mother, without doing everything possible to COMFORT Her and change Her GRIEF into JOY, is that possible?
Oh! Mother, Who is more than Good;
You have been formed with all the perogatives
GOD is able to make;
You have Married the Power of GOD,
so to speak; You are Good, and more,
You are Good with the GOODNESS of GOD
HIMSELF.
GOD has extended Himself
by making You His Terrestrial
and Celestial MASTERPIECE !
The Most Holy Virgin had a yellow pinafore.
What am I saying, yellow? She had a pinafore more brilliant than several SUNS put together. It was not a tangible material; it was composed of GLORY,
and this GLORY was SCINTILLATING,
and ravishingly BEAUTIFUL.
Everything in The Holy Virgin carried me firmly
and made me kind of slide into the
Adoration and Love of my JESUS
in every state of His Mortal Life.
The Most Holy Virgin had two Chains,
one a little wider than the other.
From the narrower one, hung the CROSS which I mentioned earlier. These Chains (since they must be given the name of chains) were like RAYS of brightly shining GLORY, sparkling and dazzling. Her shoes (since they must be called shoes) were white, but a silvery brilliant white. There were Roses around them.
These Roses were dazzlingly beautiful, and from the
heart of each Rose there shone forth a FLAME of
very beautiful and pleasing LIGHT.
On Her shoes there was a buckle of GOLD,
not the gold of this earth, but rather the Gold of Paradise.
The SIGHT of The Holy Virgin
was itself a PERFECT PARADISE.
She had everything needed to SATISFY,
for earth had been forgotten.
The Holy Virgin was surrounded by TWO LIGHTS.
The first LIGHT, the nearer to
The Most Holy Virgin, reached as far as us.
It shone most beautifully and scintillatingly.
The second LIGHT shone out
a little around the BEAUTIFUL LADY
and we found ourselves BATHED in it.
It was motionless (that is to say it wasn't scintillating) but much more brilliant than our poor sun on earth. All this LIGHT did not harm nor tire the eyes in any way.
In addition to all these LIGHTS, all this SPLENDOUR, there shone forth concentrations or BEAMS of LIGHT
and single RAYS of LIGHT from the Body of
The Holy Virgin, from Her Clothes
and from all over Her.
The VOICE of the BEAUTIFUL LADY was soft.
It was enchanting, ravishing, warming to the heart.
It satisfied, flattered every obstacle,
it soothed and softened.
It seemed to me I could never stop
eating up Her beautiful VOICE
and my heart seemed to dance
or want to go towards Her
and melt inside Her.
The Eyes of The Most Holy Virgin,
our Sweet Mother,
cannot be described in human language.
To speak of them, you would need a Seraph, you would need more than that, you would need the language of
GOD HIMSELF, of the GOD Who formed
The Immaculate Virgin ,
The MASTERPIECE of
His OMNIPOTENCE.
The EYES of the MAJESTIC MARY
appeared thousands of times more beautiful
than the rarest brilliants,
diamonds and precious stones.
They shone like two SUNS; they were SOFT,
softness itself, as CLEAR as a MIRROR.
In Her Eyes, you could see PARADISE.
They drew you to Her, She seemed to want to
DRAW and GIVE HERSELF.
The more I looked, the more I wanted to SEE;
the more I saw, the more I LOVED HER
with all my might.
The Eyes of the BEAUTIFUL IMMACULATE One
were like the DOOR of GOD's Kingdom,
from which you could see all that can elate the soul.
When my eyes met those
of The Mother of GOD
and of myself, I felt inside me
a happy revolution of LOVE
and a declaration that I Love Her
and am MELTING with LOVE.
As we looked at each other, our eyes spoke to each other in their fashion, and I loved Her so much I could have KISSED Her in the middle of Her Eyes,
which touched my soul and seemed to draw it
towards them and make it melt into Hers.
Her Eyes set up a sweet trembling in all my being;
and I was afraid to make the slightest movement
which might cause Her the smallest displeasure.
Just the sight of the Eyes of the Purest of Virgins
would have been enough to make the Heaven
of a blessed creature, enough to fill the soul with the
Will of The MOST HIGH
amid the events which occurs in the course of mortal life,
enough to make the soul
perform continual ACTS of PRAISE,
of THANKSGIVING, of ATONEMENT
and EXPIATION.
Just this sight focuses the soul on GOD,
and makes it like a living-death,
looking upon all things of this earth,
even the things which seem the most serious,
as nothing but children's playthings.
The soul would want to hear no one speaking
unless they spoke of GOD,
and of that which affects His Glory.
SIN is the only Evil SHE sees on earth.
SHE will DIE of GRIEF
unless GOD sustains HER. Amen."
MARIA of the CROSS, Victim of JESUS
nee Melanie Calvat, Shepherdess of La Salette
Castellamare, 21st of November, 1878.
"I anticipate with great pleasure the 'SECRET'
circulating at full extent; the more it spreads the more
it will arouse salutary fear and numerous returns to GOD. MARY will bless those who help at the diffusion as She absolutely wants this passed on to all of the people. We are punished for having neglected this absolute ORDER from THE MOTHER OF GOD."
Extract from a letter of Melanie relating to the SECRET
of La Salette.
Footnotes:
1. Neither Melanie nor Maximin understood French. The
Beautiful Lady now continues Her speech in "patois".
2. ..Melanie corrects these words in parenthesis which are her own, she says, and which she judges to be unclear and inaccurate. "That is to say", she writes, "that in those days, which only seem like twenty years ago, some perverted people (Italian: malvages) had given themselves over to devotion to the demon of magic. These people would cause to appear in the eyes of the curious, acquainted and theirs who had not led a Christian way of life. "These supposedly resurrected individuals appeared in heavenly glory. People known to have lived in the fear of God appeared to be in horrible suffering, and urged their friends and acquaintances not to follow in their footsteps, and they preached a gospel opposed to that of Our Lord Jesus Christ. It seems that these bizzare occurrences may be put down to the fashion fro spiritualistic evocations and for certain spiritualistic and demoniac practices which no doubt will one day be brought to light through a thorough examination of the Luciferian archives of FreeMasonry."
In the same letter, Melanie takes care to explain that where it is said that people will be transported from one place to another, it must be understood as to be in rare cases only.
3. In patois. 4. "In which direction had the Holy Virgin turned when She rose?" --"That way (she pointed to the east)...I know that Rome is in that direction."
Conversation with Melanie, Miss des Brulais,
8th Sept. 1849
5. "My Father's Good Lord: this is the Crucifix, this living Crucifix which the beautiful Lady wears around Her neck, and which seemed to talk to Her. The Holy Virgin..."
Melanie does not seem to have doubted for a moment that it was Her, this comes out in the account, however, she does not dare to be the first to state it: it is for the Church of Jesus Christ to do so, she has this intuition. In effect, the next morning, it is the parish priest of La Salette who cries out, at the account of the two children:
"It was the Holy Virgin who appeared to you" and from the pulpit, will announce this to his parishioners, and to all the faithful ones among them.
6. Today: 21st of November 1878, when this account
was written.
Additional words of Melanie:
"The GREAT CHASTISEMENT WILL COME, because men will not be converted; yet it is only their conversion that can hinder these SCOURGES. GOD will begin to strike men by inflicting lighter punishments in order to open their eyes; then He will stop, or may repeat His former WARNINGS to give place for REPENTANCE.
But sinners will not avail themselves of these opportunities; He will, in consequence, send more severe castigations, anxious to move sinners to repentance, but all in vain. Finally, the obduracy of sinners shall draw upon their heads the greatest and most terrible calamities.
We are all GUILTY ! PENANCE is not done, and SIN increases daily. Those who should come forward to do good are retained by fear. EVIL is great. A moderate punishment serves only to irritate the spirits, because they view all things with human eyes. GOD could work a MIRACLE to CONVERT and CHANGE the aspect of the earth without Chastisement. GOD will work a MIRACLE; it will be a STROKE of His MERCY; but after the wicked shall have inebriated themselves with BLOOD, the SCOURGE shall arrive.
What countries shall be preserved from such calamities? Where shall we go for refuge? I, in my turn, shall ask, What is the country that observes the COMMANDMENTS of GOD? What country is not influenced by human fear where the interest of the CHURCH and the Glory of GOD are at stake? (Ah, indeed! What country, what nation upon earth?) In behalf of my Superior and myself, I have often asked myself where we could go for REFUGE, had we the means for the journey and for our subsistence, on condition that no person were to know it? But I renounce these useless thoughts. We are very GUILTY ! In consequence of this, it is necessary that a very great and terrible SCOURGE should come to revive our Faith, and to restore to us our very reason, which we have almost entirely lost. Wicked men are devoured by a thirst for exercising their cruelty; but when they shall have reached the uttermost point of barbarity, GOD HIMSELF shall extend His Hand to STOP them, and very soon after, a complete change shall be effected in all surviving persons. Then they will sing the Te Deum Laudamus with the most lively gratitude and love. The Virgin Mary, Our Mother, shall be our LIBERATRIX. Peace shall reign, and the charity of Jesus Christ shall unite our hearts...Let us PRAY; let us pray. GOD does not wish to chastise us severely.
He speaks to us in so many, so many ways to make us return to Him. How long shall we remain stubborn? Let us pray, let us pray; let us never cease praying and doing penance. Let us pray for our Holy Father the Pope, the only light for the faithful in these times of darkness. O yes, let us by all means pray much. Let us pray to good, sweet, merciful Virgin Mary; for we stand in great need of Her powerful hands over our heads."
Words of Maximin:
"In this time the Antichrist will be born of a nun of Hebraic descent, a false virgin, who will have intercourse with the ancient serpent, with the master of impurity and putrefaction. His father will be a bishop. He will perform false miracles and subsist only on vitiating faith. He will have brethren, who will be children of evil but not incarnate devils like himself. Soon they will be at the head of armies, supported by the legions of Hell."
