The Virgin Mary Appears High in the French Alps

Join John Carpenter, Don Hartley and the Deeper Truth research team as they delve into the rich story of Mary's appearance in La Salette, France.in 1846.

A: La Salette, a French town located in the Alps, was the place at which a Marian apparition occurred in the nineteenth century.

This was when the Blessed Mother appeared to two shepherd children at La Salette, a small hamlet in the French Alps. Through the children she gave her message of "Reconciliation" to the world. She insisted that this message be made known to all her people.

Our Lady of La Salette began her message by speaking about two sins that “weigh down the arm of my Son so much”: sins against the Second and Third Commandments. These two Commandments concern our duty to God Himself as our Creator: “Thou shall not take the Name of the Lord thy God in vain.”

A man broke off a piece of rock at the spot of the Virgin's appearance and uncovered a spring. The spring was found to have healing powers which inspired the bishop to begin an official inquiry. Twenty-three cures were attributed to the mountain spring in the first year after the apparition.

Mary's tears at La Salette are a sign of God's tenderness, unappreciated and scoffed at. It is a sign within our understanding: for God has always spoken to humans through humans and by means of signs and languages used by God's people.

Her voice was soft, enchanting, warming to the ears. -During the initial inquiry of the apparition, a man broke off a piece of rock from the apparition site. A spring began to flow, and many healing miracles have been attributed to this spring.