On the 19th of September 1846, the feast day of Our Lady of Sorrows, the Virgin Mary appeared, this time in a small village called La Salette, near Corps, 1.800 metres above sea level and 35 kilometres from Grenoble in France.

She appeared here to two small children who were looking after the cattle. They were Melanie Calvat and Maximin Giraud aged 15 and 11 who had only known each other for two days.
Melanie tells us: I had seen from a hill that ours cows were lying down chewing the cud. I went down and Maximin started to climb upwards. Suddenly I saw a beautiful light, much brighter than the sun and felt full of tremendous loving wonder and respect. In that light I saw a very beautiful woman with her head resting in her hands. The Lady stood up and said: come nearer children, do not be afraid "I am here to tell you great news."

The children were amazed to see that The Lady looked very sadly and had tears streaming down her cheeks. She folded her arms over her breast. At first she spoke to the children in French but quickly started to speak to them in their own local dialect. Our Lady spoke over people swearing, not keeping the Sunday has a day of rest and disobeying Gods laws.
Her words were very important and impressive: "If My people do not obey God, I shall be forced to let go of My Sons Hand". This statement points to the last days of the world.

Our Ladys sad expression, her tears and words show us her very real care for and sympathy with all people. "you’ll never be able to repay Me for what I have done for you".
Our Lady asked us to pray a lot to save the world. She asked us all to confess our sins, turn away from our evil ways, do penance and pray. Mary pointed out the great blessings and mercy of the holy rosary and begged us: "be reconciled with God".
During the period of time when she was appearing to both of the children, they were individually given a secret. Maximin received his secret first and then Our Lady told a secret to Melanie. While Our Lady was talking to Maximin, Melanie saw her lips moving, but couldn't understand what She was saying.

Melanie says that both secrets were written down and were handed to Pope Pius IX in 1851.
Maximin never published the secret given to him, as he died before so doing.

Below you can read some of this secret:

*Three quarters of the population of France shall lose their Faith
*A protestant nation in the North will repent and proclaim their Faith. *Because of this other nations shall return to God in faith.
*The Church shall grow and bloom once more:
*After this peace will be greatly disturbed by the ‘monster’! The monster   shall come at the end of the 19th century or at the latest at the beginning of the 20th century. 

What about the secrets given to Melanie? The Blessed Virgin had said to her, "Melanie, what I am going to tell you now does not have to remain a secret. You may tell it in 1858”. These secrets told to Melanie have caused a lot of unrest and disagreement. Among other things Our Lady told of the coming attempt to murder the Pope, which would not shorten his life.

Mary warned that faith would be lost on a large scale, leaving room for materialism, false teaching, spiritualism and many other sins.
She continues: "all those who persecute the Church of Jesus Christ and all those people who have surrendered themselves to sin, will die and the earth will be like a desert.
Then there shall be Peace, the reconcilliation between God and man"
Finally Our Lady said:" you’ll tell this to all my people'.
This part she repeated again.

Maximin tells us that the Lady was beautiful, great, a wonderful shining brilliant light, she wore a white cloak, a bright yellow apron and her white shoes were decorated with roses of many colours. Roses were also visible on her crown. Around Her neck She wore a chain on which was hanging a large cross with a hammer and pliers on the cross bar.

Maximin also describes how they saw The Lady disappear,
First she was elevated to about one and a half metre high and then She faded and vanished before our eyes.
Melanie said: "She must be a great Saint, if we had known that we would have ask her to take us with her".
The children were horribly victimised, with threats, teasing, bribes and very mean tricks.
But despite all this their stories remained exactly the same time and again. Finally after a long and stringent examination of the facts, the Bishops formally recognised that Our Blessed Mother did appear to the children in La Salette. This was in 1851.

Maximin died on the first of March 1875 at just 40 years of age.
Melanie lived for many years in various convents in France, England and Italy. She died 15 December 1904 and was put to rest in Altamura (Italy).