Case file · Apparition / miracle
Our Lady of La Salette
Two shepherd children, Maximin Giraud and Mélanie Calvat, reported a vision of the Virgin Mary on a mountain at La Salette-Fallavaux in the French Alps in 1846.
1846 CE · 44.84, 5.97 · status: account
The account
The local bishop approved devotion to Our Lady of La Salette in 1851, and the image was crowned in 1879. Shrines with her name exist from Portugal and Poland to Mexico and India.
The sceptical view
The account rests on the testimony of two children, and Church approval concerns the devotion rather than proof of a supernatural event.
Connections in the atlas
- Our Lady of Lourdes
- ▶ When the Virgin appeared
- Fátima 'Miracle of the Sun'