Notre Dame de la Salette (Isère - France)

Site officiel: http://lasalette.cef.fr/ (F) Notre-Dame de La Salette est le vocable utilisé à l'occasion d'une apparition attribuée par certains milieux à la Vierge Marie dans la commune et la paroisse de La Salette-Fallavaux, près de Corps dans le département de l'Isère. Une femme en pleurs y serait apparue le 19 septembre 1846 à deux enfants, Maximin Giraud et Mélanie Calvat. (EN) La Salette is a small mountaintop village near Grenoble, France. It is most noted for an apparition of the Virgin Mary that was reported in 1846 by two shepherd children, Mélanie Calvat and Maximin Giraud, followed by numerous accounts of miraculous healings. The Catholic Church investigated the claims and found them to be basically credible and was approved under the name of Our Lady of La Salette. Devotion to Our Lady of La Salette was weakened in the late nineteenth century by the controversy surrounding the claims of one of the seers, Mélanie Calvat and the precarious situation of the Gallican church in a France hostile to religion. Recent release of the secrets from the Vatican Secret Archives have clarified the situation. Despite these events, the apparition of La Salette flourished in the twentieth century, and together with Our Lady of Lourdes (1858) and Our Lady of Fátima (1917) La Salette remains one of the most famous Marian apparitions of the modern age. (Wikipedia) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Our_Lady_of_La_Salette Map for tourists: http://maps.google.fr/maps/ms?hl=fr&ie=UTF8&msa=0&msid=112774287410344269201.00047f7c4833176ca205c VALPARD FILMS http://valpardfilms.awardspace.com