What is Our Lady of La Salette?
{{Infobox Catholic apparition | name = Our Lady of La Salette | image = PaeteChurchjf6479 10.JPG | size = 250px | alt = | caption = | location = La Salette-Fallavaux, France | date = 19 September 1846 | witness = Melanie Calvat, Maximin Giraud | type = Marian apparation | approval = November 1851, during the pontificate of [[Pope Pius IX]] | shrine = Basicila of Our Lady of La Salette }} '''Our Lady of La Salette''' is a title given to the [[Virgin Mary]] who is believed to have appeared at the village of [https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_Salette-Fallavaux La Salette], [[France]]. The Marian apparition was reported by two children, Maximin Giraud, and Melanie Calvat.<ref name=dayton>{{Cite web |url=http://campus.udayton.edu/mary/buby/mfl1.htm |title=''Apparitions of the Modern Era'', Univ.of Dayton |access-date=2013-05-17 |archive-date=2016-05-06 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160506201439/http://campus.udayton.edu/mary/buby/mfl1.htm |url-status=dead }}</ref> In French she is called ''{{lang|fr|Notre-Dame de La Salette}}''. == History == [[Image:Our Lady of La Salette (crying).jpg|thumb|left|220px|Statue depicting Our Lady of La Salette crying.]] On 19 September 1846, Maximin Giraud and Melanie Calvat reported seeing the Virgin Mary weeping on Mount Sous-les Baisses. According to their account, the Virgin Mary continued to weep as she spoke to them, first in French, then in their own [[dialect]]. After the woman spoke to them, she vanished. The following day the children's account of the apparition was put into writing and signed by the children and those who had heard the story. == Recognition == [[Image:Eglise de Corps - statue N.D. de la Salette.jpg|thumb|left|220px|Statue depicting Our Lady of La Salette speaking to the two children.]] When Maximin and Melanie made the woman's message public, it caused a sensation in the community. Soon thereafter, the bishop of Grenoble began to investigate the apparition.<ref name=clugnet>[http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/09008b.htm Clugnet, Léon