is a small mountaintop village near Grenoble . 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 The Roman 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
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. September 19, 1846 Two shepherd
children - Maximin Giraud and Mélanie C