Our Lady of La Salette

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 Calvet and Maximin Giraud, followed by numerous accounts of miraculous healings.

The 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 cult of La Salette flourished in the twentieth century, and together with Our Lady of Lourdes (1858) and Our Lady of Fatima (1917). La Salette remains one of the most famous Marian apparitions of the modern age.

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The Litany of Our Lady of La Salette

Lord, have mercy on us.  Christ, have mercy on us
Lord, have mercy on us, Jesus hear us.  Jesus, grant our petitions
God the Father of Heaven, have mercy on us
God the Son, Redeemer of the world, have mercy on us
God the Holy Ghost, have mercy on us
Holy, Trinity, one God, have mercy on us
Our Lady of La Salette, reconciler of sinners, pray for us
Our Lady of La Salette, help of the just, pray for us
Our Lady of La Salette, healer of the ill, pray for us
Our Lady of La Salette, consoler of the afflicted, pray for us
Our Lady of La Salette, who appeared to some poor children of the Alps to give us grave warnings, pray for us
Our Lady of La Salette, who wept tears on thinking of man’s sins, pray for us
Our Lady of La Salette, who gave us the Lord’s warnings so that we be converted, pray for us
Our Lady of La Salette, who by Thy supplications holds back the arm of the Lord, who is angry with us,  pray for us
Our Lady of La Salette, who said: “If my people will not submit, I shall be forced to let go the arm of my Son”, pray for us
Our Lady of La Salette, who prays continually to Thy Divine Son that He be merciful to us, pray for us
Our Lady of La Salette, who feels such great sorrow because of our sins, pray for us
Our Lady of La Salette, who deserves all our gratitude,  pray for  us
Our Lady of La Salette, who, after giving Thy warnings to the children of the mountain, said: “Well, my children, you will pass it on to all my people.”,  pray for us
Mary, thou who have announced to men terrible punishments if they are not converted, pray for us
Mary, thou who announces to them mercy and pardon, if they return to God, pray for us
Mary, thou who promises abundant graces if we do penance, pray for us
Mary, thou whose miraculous apparition has echoed throughout both worlds, pray for us
Mary, thou whose miracles extend to all countries, pray for us
Mary, thou whose cult grows each day, pray for us
Mary, thou whose good works delight all thy children, pray for us
Mary, thou who are not invoked in vain, pray for us
Mary, thou who made a miraculous spring flow forth at thy feet, pray for us
Mary, thou who, following the example of Jesus, gives sight to the blind, movement to the paralyzed, health to the ill, pray for us
Mary, thou who consoles all the unfortunate, pray for us
Mary, thou who appeared resplendent with light, pray for us
Mary, thou who wore on thy breast the Crucifix and the instruments of the Passion, pray for us
Mary, thou who has warned us to sanctify the Lord’s Day if we are to avoid the terrible punishments, pray for us
Mary, thou who said that work on Sundays and blasphemy especially excite the anger of God, pray for us
Mary, thou who has reproached us for not keeping the fasts and abstinences of the Church, pray for us
Mary, thou who has announced to us the plagues of God, if we continue to violate His commandments,  pray for us
Mary, thou who has recommended morning and evening prayers, pray for us
By Thy powerful protection, deliver us from the evils which threaten us, O Mary!
Poor sinners that we are, convert us, O Mary!
In the accomplishment of our duty, help us O Mary!
In solid piety, strengthen us O Mary!
In the persevering practice of all the virtues, encourage us O Mary!
In our joys, be with us O Mary!
In all the events of life, obtain for us a perfect submission to the will of God, O Mary!

Lamb of God, who takest away the sins of the world, pardon us, O Mary, O Lord!
Lamb of God, who takest away the sins of the world, grant our petitions
Lamb of God, who takest away the sins of the world, have mercy on us

Pray for us, O Holy Mother of God, that we may be made worthy of the promises of Christ

Let us pray

O God, who does not cease showing us how agreeable to Thee is the devotion to the Most Holy Virgin, by the many miracles which her intercession obtains for us, grant us the grace to be always faithful to the teachings she gives us, that, after having observed Thy holy commandments in this life, we may have the joy of possessing Thee for all eternity.  Amen

Indulgence of 40 days (Monseigneur de Bruillard, 15 January 1852)