When Mary speaks to those who refuse miracles

A wonderful and irrefutable fact, witnessed by thousands of people who can still testify of it today [editor's note: in 1875], is the apparition of the Blessed Virgin that took place on September 19, 1846, on the mountain of La Salette (eastern France). This loving Mother appeared to two children, as a beautiful lady…

She came down on a mountain in the Alps… for the sake of France… and the whole world, to warn us that her Divine Son was angry, especially because of three sins: blasphemy, the profanation of Sundays and holy days, and the transgression of the laws of abstinence.

Miracles came to validate this apparition, and can be found in public records or attested by reliable and trustworthy persons. These facts are valuable in that they confirm the good in their attachment to religion and refute those who, perhaps out of ignorance, want to put a limit to the power and mercy of God by saying that the time of miracles is long gone.

Saint John Bosco (1815-1888)

Apparition of the Blessed Virgin on the mountain of La Salette, France (Turin 1875)