This message was published at Lecce on the 15th of November 1879 with the imprimatur of Bishop Zola.

Acknowledgements

The original text of the Message and Secret of La Salette, approved by the Catholic Church, were published here in its entirety for the first time in the English language.  We sincerely thank Mr. Joseph L Corteville, President of the Association of the Children of Notre Dame of La Salette and of Saint Louis Marie Grignon of Montfort+, and,  Director of L’Impartial’ +, a Marian Revue,  to have graciously supplied us with this manuscript and for authorizing us to publish same.                                                                                  +Association of the Children of Our Lady of La Salette, 12th Ave. of Grain d’or 49600  Beaupreau, France.

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The Message of LaSalette

Part I                                                                                                                          “On the 18th of September 1846, the eve of the Holy Apparition of the Holy Virgin, I was alone, as usual, watching over my Master’s cows.  Around eleven o’clock in the morning I saw a small boy walking towards me.  I was frightened at this for it seemed to me that everyone ought to know that I avoided all kinds of company.  This boy came up to me and said:

Little girl, I’m coming with you.  I’m from Corps too”  At these words, the natural evil in me soon showed itself, and taking a few steps back, I told him.  “I don’t want anybody around.  I want to be alone. But the boy followed me saying:  “Go on, let me stay with you.  My Master told me to come and watch over my cows together with yours.  I’m from Corps.”

I walked away from him, gesturing to him that I didn’t want anybody around, and when I was some distance away, I sat down on the grass.  There, I was used to talk with the little flowers of the good Lord.

A moment later, I looked behind me, and there I found Maximin sitting close to me.  Straightaway he said to me:  “Keep me with you.  I’ll be very good.”

But the natural evil in me will not hear reason.  I jump to my feet  and run a little farther off without saying a word and again I start playing with the little flowers of the good Lord,  In an instant, Maximin was there again, telling me that he would be very good, that he wouldn’t talk, that he would get bored all by himself, and that his Master had sent him to be with me, etc.  This time, I took pity.  I gestured to him to sit down, and I kept on playing with the little flowers of the Good Lord.

It wasn’t long before Maximin broke the silence by bursting into laughter.  I think he was making fun of me.  I looked at him and he said to me:  “Let’s have some fun,  let’s make a game.”  I said nothing in reply for I was so ignorant that I didn’t understand what games with other people were … always having been alone.  I played with the flowers on my own and Maximin ccame right up close to me, doing nothing but laughing, telling me the flowers didn’t have ears to listen to me, and that we should play together instead.  But I had no liking for the game he wanted to play.  I started talking to him, however, and he told me that the ten days he was to spend with his Master would soon be over and then he would go home to his father in Corps, etc.

While he was talking, I heard the bell of LaSalette.  It was the Angelus.  I gestured to Maximin to lift his soul up to God.  He took off his hat and was silent for a moment.  Then I said.  “Do you want to have dinner?”  “Yes,” he replied, let’s eat.”  We sat down and I brought out of my bag the provisions my Master had given me. As was my habit, before breaking into my little round loaf, I made a cross with the point of my knife on the bread, and a little hole in the middle, saying:  “If the devil’s in there, may he leave, and if the Good Lord is in there, may He stay!” and I rapidly covered up the little hole.  Maximin burst into laughter and kicked the loaf out of my hands.  It rolled down the mountainside and was lost from sight.  I, realizing that Maxmin must still be hungry, pointed out a place on the mountainside covered with all kinds of berries.  I urged him to go and eat some and he went straight away. He ate a few berries and brought his hat back full of them.  In the evening we walked back down the mountain together and promised to come back the next day and watch over our cows together.

                                                                                           The next day, the 19th of September, I met Maximin on the way up.  We climbed up the mountain site together.  I discovered that Maximin was a very good simple boy, and would willingly talk about whatever I wanted to talk about.  He was also very flexible and had not fixed options.  He was just a little curious, for when I walked away from him, as soon as he saw that I had stopped, he would run over to me to see what I was doing and hear what I was saying to the flowers of the Good Lord.  And if he arrived too late, he would ask me what I had said.

Maximin told me to teach him a game.  It was already late morning.  I told him to gather some flowers for the ‘Paradise.’  We set to work together.  Soon we had a number of flowers of various colors“Near the gully there will be stones and flowers to build the Paradise House”    

 I could hear the village Angelus ringing, for the weather was fine and there wasn’t a cloud in the sky.  Having told the good Lord what we had learned, I said too Maximin that we ought to drive our cows on to a small plateau near the gully, where there would be stones to build the ‘Paradise’.  We drove our cows to the selected spot and then had a small meal.  Then we started collecting stones to build our little house, which comprised of a so called ground floor which was where we were to live, and thena story above which was to be. as we called it, Paradise.

This story was decorated all over with different coloured flowers, with garlands hanging from flower stalks.  This ‘Paradise’ was covered by a single large stone which we had strewn with flowers.  We had also hung garlands all the way round.  When we had finished we sat and looked at the Paradise.  We began to feel sleepy and having moved a couple of feet away, we went to sleep

When I woke up 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?  Oh! Oh my good  God!”  At the same moment, I dropped the stick I was holding.  I felt drawn.

I kept my eyes firmly fixed on this light, which was static.  Then it looked to be opening up and I caught the sight of another, much more brilliant light which was moving.  Within this light I saw a most beautiful lady sitting on top of our Paradise, with her head in her hands. She was weeping.  I could see her tears falling.

The beautiful lady stood up , crossing her arms while watching us, then holding them out 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 started to flow again.

“If my people do not wish to submit themselves, I amforced to let go of the hand of my Son.  It is so 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 youl.  If I 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, you will never be able to make up for the trouble I have taken over for the rest of you.

I give 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.

At this point, I was trying to interpret the word ‘potatoes’ (pommes de terre).  I thought I understood it to be ‘apples’  The beautiful and good Lady, reading my thoughts, repeated thus:

“You do not understand my children.  I will tell it to you another way.

If you have corn, you must not sow it.  The beasts will eat all you sow.  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.

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 Maximim was receiving his secret.  Then, turning to me, the Most Holy Virgin spoke to me and gave me a secret in French.  Here is the secret in its entirety as she gave it to me:

Part III                                                                                                                           “Melanie, what I am about to tell you 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 irreverance  and their impiety in the celebration of the Holy Mysteries, by their love of money, their love of honours 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 on 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 Father 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 bedimmed 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 punishments which will follow one after the other 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,  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 numner of demons will be unloosed from hell.  They will put an end to faith little by lttle, 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 religiious institutions will lose all faith and will lose many souls.

Evil books will abound on the earth. 

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 stray.  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 Christ Jesus, denying the existence of Heaven, that is also to say, the souls of the damned.  All these souls will appear as of foxed to their bodies.)

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 men 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 to be superior to people of same identity.  They will abolish civil rights as well as ecclesiastical.  All order and justice will be trampled underfoot and only homicides, hate, jealousy, lies and dissention will 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 mishcevous would attempt his life several times to do harm and shorten his days but neither he 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 make himself like the king of all hearts.  My those in charge of religious communities be on their guard against the people they must receive for 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 wiccked 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 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 begor 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 the 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, worshipped and glorified.  Charity will flourish everywhere.  The new kings will be the right arm of the Holy Church, which will be strong, humble, 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 the faith for there will be unity among the workers of Jesus Christ and man will live in fear of God.

The peace among men will be short lived.  Twenty five years of plentiful harvests will make them forget that the sins of men are the cause of all the troubles on earth.

A forerunner of the anti christ with troops gathered from several nations, will fight against the true Christ, the only Redeemer 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 with calamities of all kinds (in addition to plague and famine which will be wide-spread.  There will be a series of wars until the last war, which will then be brought 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 akind of false peace in the world.  People will think of nothing but amusement.  The wicked will give themselves over to all kinds of sin.

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 your selves, 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 ground 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 s=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, 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 and cities.

Rome will lose 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 peopoles 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 Saviour of men.  I call on my children, the the 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, 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 to be 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 Elias will come … filled with the Spirit of God.  They will preach with the might of God, and men of good will will believe in GodMany souls will be comforted by their preaching.

They will make great steps forward through the virtue of the Holy Spirit and will condemn the devlish 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 Elias 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 saviour of the world.  He will rise proudly into the air to go to Heaven.  He will be smothered by the breath of the Archangel Sint Michael.  He will fall, and the earth, which will have been in a continual series of evolutions for three days, will open up 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.”

 

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