THE SECRET OF LA SALETTE
REVEALED BY OUR LADY TO HER ELECTED SEERS MAXIMIN GIRAUD
AND MELANIE CALVAT
IN LA SALETTE, FRANCE, SEPTEMBER, 19, 1846
1. 'Melanie, what I am going to tell you now will not always be secret.
You will be allowed to publish it in 1858.'
2. 'The
priests, ministers of my Son, the priests, by their bad life, by their
irreverences and their impiety in celebrating the holy mysteries, by
love of money, love of honor and of pleasures, the priests have become
cesspools of impurity. Yes, the priests are asking for vengeance, and
vengeance is suspended over their heads. Woe to the priests and to
persons consecrated to God, who by their infidelities and their bad life
are
crucifying anew my Son! The sins of persons consecrated to God cry out
towards Heaven and call for vengeance, and see how vengeance is at their
doors, because there is no longer found anyone to implore mercy and
forgiveness for the people; there are no longer generous souls, there is
no longer anyone worthy to offer the Victim without blemish to the
Eternal on behalf of the world.'
3. 'God is going to strike in a manner without example.'
4. 'Woe to
the inhabitants of the earth! God is going to exhaust His wrath, and no
one will be able to take himself away from so many afflictions
combined.'
5. 'The
leaders, the guides of the people of God have neglected prayer and
penance, and the demon has obscured their intelligence; they have become
these wandering stars that the old devil will drag along with his tail
to make them perish. God will permit the old serpent to place divisions
among rulers, in all societies and in all families; physical and moral
pains will be suffered; God will abandon men to themselves, and will
send chastisements which will follow one after another for more
than thirty-five years.'
6. 'Society is on the eve of the most terrible scourges and of the
greatest events; one must expect to be ruled with an iron rod and to drink the chalice of the wrath of God.'
7. 'May the
Vicar of my Son, the sovereign Pontiff Pius IX, no longer leave Rome
after the year 1859; but may he be firm and generous, may he fight with
the weapons of faith and love; I will be with him.'
8. 'May he
be wary of Napoleon; his heart is double, and when he will want to be at
the same time Pope and emperor, soon God will withdraw from him: he is
this eagle who, wanting always to raise himself up, will fall on the
sword which he wanted to use in order to force the peoples to raise him
up.'
9. 'Italy
will be punished for her ambition in wanting to shake off the yoke of
the Lord of Lords; also she will be delivered over to war; blood will
flow on all sides; the Churches will be closed or desecrated; the
priests, the religious will be hunted; they will be made to die, and to
die a cruel death. Several will abandon the faith, and the number of
priests and religious who will separate themselves from the true
religion will be great; Among these persons there will be found even
some Bishops.'
10. 'May the
Pope keep himself on guard against the performers of miracles, because
the time has come when the most astonishing wonders will take place on
the earth and in the air.'
11. 'In the
year 1864, Lucifer with a great number of demons will be unleashed from
hell; they will abolish the faith little by little and even in persons
consecrated to God; they will blind them in such a way that barring a
particular grace these persons will take on the spirit of these bad
angels: several religious houses will lose the faith entirely and Will
lose many souls.'
12. 'Bad
books will abound on earth, and the spirits of darkness Will spread
everywhere a universal slackening in all that concerns the service of
God; they will have a very great power over nature: there Will be
churches to serve these spirits. Some persons will be transported from
one place to another by these bad spirits and even some priests, because
they will not be guiding themselves by the good spirit of the Gospel,
which is a spirit of humility, charity and zeal for the glory of God.
The dead and the just will be made to revive.' [That
is to say that these dead will take the appearance of just souls who
had lived on earth, so as to better mislead men: these so-called
resurrected dead, who will be nothing other than the demon under these
appearances, Will preach another Gospel contrary to the one of the true
Christ Jesus, denying the existence of heaven, or they may also be the
souls of the damned. All these souls will appear as if united to their
bodies.]
'There will be in all places extraordinary wonders, because the true
faith is dying out and because false light enlightens the world. Woe to
the Princes of the Church who will not be occupied except to pile riches
upon riches, to safeguard their authority and to dominate with pride.'
[Melanie
added the comment (in brackets and italics above) about the dead and
righteous who will appear to be brought back to life. In a letter to
Abbé Combe, the editor of the 1904 edition of Le Secret De Melanie, she states that she made this comment'according to the Vision which I had in the moment that the very Blessed Virgin was speaking of the resurrection of the dead.' (Le Secret De Melanie, p. 29-30).]
13. 'The
Vicar of my Son will have much to suffer, because for a time the Church
will be delivered over to great persecutions: this will be the time of
darkness; the Church will have a frightful crisis.'
14. 'The
holy faith of God being forgotten, each individual will want to be
guided by himself and to be superior to his peers. Civil and
ecclesiastical powers will be abolished, all order and all justice will
be trampled underfoot; one will see only homicides, hatred, jealousy,
lying and discord, without love for country, or for family.'
15. 'The holy Father will suffer much. I will be with him until the end to receive his sacrifice.'
16. 'The
wicked will make an attempt several times on his life without power to
do harm to his days; but neither he, nor his successor [Who will not reign long,] will see the triumph of the Church of God.'
17. 'Civil
rulers will have all one same design which will be to abolish, and to
make disappear all religious principle, in order to make way for
materialism, atheism, spiritualism and all kinds of vices.'
18. 'In the
year 1865, the abomination will be seen in holy places; in convents, the
flowers of the Church will be decayed and the demon Will make himself
as the king of hearts. May those who are at the head of religious
communities keep themselves on guard for persons whom they must receive,
because the demon will use of all his malice in order to
introduce
into religious orders persons devoted to sin, for disorders and the love
of carnal pleasures will be spread by all the earth.'
19. 'France,
Italy, Spain and England will be in war; blood will flow in the
streets; Frenchman will fight with Frenchman, Italian with Italian;
subsequently there will be a general war which will be appalling. For a
time, God will no longer be mindful of France or Italy, because the
Gospel of Jesus Christ is no longer known. The wicked will deploy all
their malice; they will kill themselves, they will massacre themselves
mutually even in the houses.'
20. 'At the
first stroke of His lightning sword, the mountains and the whole of
nature will tremble with terror, because the disorders and the crimes of
men pierce the vault of the heavens. Paris will be burned and
Marseilles engulfed; several great cities will be shaken and engulfed by
earthquakes: it will be believed that all is lost: only homicides will
be seen, only the noise of weapons and blasphemies will be heard. The
Just will suffer much; their prayers, their penances and their tears
will climb
even up to
heaven and all the people of God will ask for forgiveness and mercy, and
will ask for my help and my intercession. Then Jesus Christ by an act
of His justice and of His great mercy for the just, Will command to His
angels that all His enemies be put to death. All at once the persecutors
of the Church of Jesus Christ and all men devoted to sin will perish,
and the earth will become like a desert. Then peace, the
reconciliation
of God with men will be made; Jesus Christ will be served, adored and
glorified; charity will flower everywhere. The new kings Will be the
right arm of the holy Church, which will be strong, humble, pious, poor,
zealous and imitator of the virtues of Jesus Christ. The Gospel will be
preached everywhere and men will make great progress in the faith,
because there will be unity among the workers of Jesus Christ and
because men will live in the fear of God.'
21. 'This
peace among men will not be long; 25 years of abundant harvests will
make them forget that the sins of men are the cause of all the pains
which come upon the earth.'
22. 'A
forerunner of the antichrist with his troops from several nations will
fight against the true Christ, the only Savior of the world; he Will
spill much blood, and will want to annihilate the worship of God in
order to make himself be looked upon as a God.'
23. 'The earth will be struck all kinds of plagues [in addition to
pestilence and famine which will be general];
there will be wars until the last war, which will then be made by the
ten kings of the antichrist, which kings will have all one same design
and will be the only ones Who will rule the world. Before these arrive,
there will be a type of false peace in the world; one will think only
about amusing oneself; the wicked will deliver themselves over to all
kinds of sin, but the children of the holy Church, the children of the
faith, my true imitators, will grow in the love of God and in the
virtues which are dear to me. Happy the
humble souls guided by the Holy Spirit! I will fight with them until they arrive at the fullness of the age.'
24. 'Nature
is asking for vengeance for men, and she shudders with terror in waiting
for that which must come upon the earth soiled with crimes.'
25.
'Tremble, earth and you who make profession of serving Jesus Christ and
who on the inside you adore yourselves, tremble; for God is going to
deliver you over to His enemy, because the holy places are in
corruption; many convents are no longer houses of God, but the pastures
of Asmodeas and his sort.'
26. 'It will
be during this time that the antichrist will be born of a Hebrew
religious, of a false Virgin who will have communication with the old
serpent, the master of impurity; his father will be Bishop; at birth, he
will vomit blasphemies, he will have teeth; in a word, this will be the
devil incarnate; he will let out frightening cries, he will perform
wonders, he will nourish himself only on impurities. He will have
brothers who, although they will not be like him demons incarnate, Will
be children of evil; at 12 years, they will make themselves noticed by
their brilliant victories which they will win; soon, they will each be
at the head of armies, assisted by the legions of hell.'
[Melanie also commented on this point, as follows: 'It is said that the antichrist will be the devil incarnate, that is to say that he will be
entirely possessed. I have seen that the good God does not permit the
demon to personally incarnate himself in a human soul and body, but
that the demon under a visible form will have familiar relations with the
parents of the antichrist, and that they will consecrate him to his
service from the first moment of his existence.' (Le Secret De Melanie,
p. 55). She
wrote this comment at the end of her handwritten copy of the secret, the
one which she gave to Abbé Combe for the 1904 edition of Le Secret De Melanie.]
27. 'The
seasons will be changed, the earth will produce only bad fruits, the
stars will lose their regular movements, the moon will reflect only a
feeble reddish light; water and fire will give to the globe of the earth
convulsive movements and horrible earthquakes which will cause to be
engulfed mountains, cities [etc.].'
[The editor of the 1904 edition adds the following note concerning this paragraph: 'I have from Melanie that this etc.is
not made part of the text. The Blessed Virgin showed her other
cataclysms without naming them and without pronouncing the word etc. ' (Le Secret De Melanie, p.57.)]
28. 'Rome will lose the faith and become the seat of the antichrist.'
29. 'The demons of the air with the antichrist will perform great
wonders on
the earth and in the air, and men will corrupt themselves more and more.
God will have care of His faithful servants and men of good will; the
Gospel will be preached everywhere, all peoples and all nations will
have knowledge of the truth!'
30. 'I
address a pressing appeal to the earth: I call upon the true disciples
of God living and reigning in the heavens; I call upon the true
imitators of Christ made man, the only and true savior of men; I call
upon my children, my true devotees, those who have given themselves to
me so that I may guide them to my divine Son, those whom I carry so to
speak in my arms, those who have lived by my spirit; finally I call upon
the Apostles of the last times, the faithful disciples of Jesus Christ
who have
lived in a contempt for the world and for themselves, in poverty and in
humility, in contempt and in silence, in prayer and in mortification, in
chastity and in union with God, in suffering and unknown to the world.
It is time that they go out and come to enlighten the earth. Go, and
show yourselves as my dear children; I am with you and in you, provided
that your faith be the light which enlightens you in these days of woe.
May your zeal render you like the starving for the glory and honor of
Jesus Christ. Fight, children of light, you the small
number who can see; for behold the time of times, the end of ends.'
31. 'The
Church will be eclipsed, the world will be in consternation. But behold
Enoch and Elie filled with the Spirit of God; they will preach with the
strength of God, and men of good will will believe in God, and many
souls will be consoled; they will make great progress by the virtue of
the Holy Spirit and will condemn the devilish errors of the antichrist.'
[Abbé Combe,
the editor of the 1904 edition, adds the following note after this
paragraph. 'I have from Melanie that the Church will be eclipsed in this
sense, that 1) one will not know which is the true pope;
2) for a
time: the holy Sacrifice will cease to be offered in churches, and also
in houses: so there will be no more public worship. But she saw that yet
the holy Sacrifice would not cease: it would be offered in caves, in
tunnels, in barns and in alcoves.']
32. 'Woe to
the inhabitants of the earth! there will be bloody wars and famines;
pestilences and contagious diseases; there will be rains of a dreadful
hail of animals, thunders which will shake cities, earthquakes which
will engulf countries; voices will be heard in the air, men will beat
their head against the walls, they will call upon death, and on another
side death will be their torture; blood will flow on all sides. Who will
be able to overcome, if God does not shorten the time of the ordeal? By
the blood,
the tears and the prayers of the just, God will let Himself be swayed,
Enoch and Elie will be put to death; pagan Rome will disappear; fire
from Heaven will fall and will consume three cities; all the universe
will be struck with terror, and many will let themselves be misled
because they have not adored the true Christ living among them. It is
time; the sun darkens; faith alone will live.'
33. 'Behold
the time; the abyss opens. Behold the king of kings of darkness. Behold
the beast with his subjects, calling himself the savior of the world. He
will raise himself up with pride into the air in order to go even up to
heaven; he will be smothered by the breath of the holy Archangel
Michael. He will fall, and the earth which for three days Will be in
continual evolutions, will open its bosom full of fire; he will be
plunged for ever with all his own into the eternal chasms of hell. Then
water and fire will purify the earth and will consume all the works of
the pride of men, and all will be renewed: God will be served and
glorified.’
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