The Message of La Salette Imprimatur 1879
Melanie, what I say to you now, will not always be a secret: you may publish it in 1858.
The priests, the ministers of my Son, the priests, by their evil life, their irreverence and their impiety in celebrating the holy mysteries, by their love of money, love of honor and pleasures, the priests have become cesspools of impurity. Yes, the priests demand vengeance, and vengeance is hanging over their heads. Woe to the priests and persons consecrated to God, who by their infidelities and their evil life crucify my Son anew! The sins of persons consecrated to God cry to Heaven and call for vengeance, and now vengeance is at their doors, for there is no longer anyone to implore mercy and pardon for the people, there are no more generous souls, there is no one worthy of offering the spotless Victim to the Eternal in favor of the world.
God will strike in an unprecedented way.
Woe to the inhabitants of the earth! God will exhaust His wrath, and no one will be able to escape so many evils at once.
The heads, the leaders of the people of God, have neglected prayer and penance, and the demon has darkened their understanding; they have become wandering stars that the ancient devil will drag with his tail to cause them to perish. God will permit the ancient serpent to place divisions among those who reign, in all societies and all families, men will suffer physical and moral pains; God will abandon men to themselves, and will send chastisements which will succeed each other for more than thirty-five years.
Society is on the eve of the most terrible scourges and the greatest events; men must expect to be governed by a rod of iron and to drink the chalice of the wrath of God.
May the Vicar of my Son, the Sovereign Pontiff Pius IX, never leave Rome again after the year 1859, but may he be courageous and generous, may he fight with the weapons of faith and love, I will be with him.
May he be wary of Napoleon, his heart is duplicitous, and when he desires to be both Pope and emperor, God will quickly leave him; he is the eagle, who always wants to lift himself up, who will fall on the sword which he wanted to use to force the peoples to raise him up.
Italy will be punished for her ambition, and for wanting to shake off the yoke of the Lord of Lords; she will also be delivered to war, blood will flow on all sides, the churches will be closed or desecrated, the priests, the religious will be driven out, they will be made to die, and to die a cruel death. Some will abandon the faith, and the number of priests and religious who will cut themselves off from the true religion will be great; among these persons will be found even Bishops.
May the Pope be on his guard against the performers of miracles, for the time has come that the most astonishing prodigies will take place on earth and in the air.
In the year 1864, Lucifer, with a large number of demons, will be released from hell: they will obliterate the faith, little by little, even in persons consecrated to God: they will blind them in such a manner, that without a special grace, these persons will take on the mind of these wicked angels: many religious houses will lose the faith entirely, and lose many souls.
Wicked books will abound on earth, and the spirits of darkness will spread everywhere a universal laxity in everything 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 evil spirits, and so will some priests, because they have not been led by the good spirit of the Gospel, which is a spirit of humility, charity, and zeal for the glory of God. They will make, as if to resurrect, dead men and just men. There will be extraordinary prodigies in all places, because the true faith has been extinguished and the false light illumines the world. Woe to the Princes of the Church who will be concerned only with heaping riches upon riches, safeguarding their authority and dominating with pride!
The Vicar of my Son will have much to suffer, because for a time the Church will be delivered to great persecutions: it will be the time of darkness, the Church will suffer a frightful crisis.
The holy faith of God being forgotten, each individual will wish to be guided by himself and to be superior to his fellow men. They will abolish the civil and ecclesiastical powers, all order and all justice will be trampled underfoot, you will see only murders, hatred, jealousy, lying and discord, without love for country or family.
The Holy Father will suffer much. I will be with him to the end to receive his sacrifice.
The wicked will attempt his life several times, without being able to harm him, but neither he, nor his successor…, will see the triumph of the Church of God.
The civil rulers will all have the same design, which will be to abolish and cause to disappear, every religious principle, to make way for materialism, atheism, spiritualism, and all sorts of vices.
In the year 1865, you will see the abomination in the holy places; in the convents, the flowers of the Church will be putrefied and the demon will make himself like the king of hearts. May those who are at the head of the religious communities be on guard against those whom they must receive, for the demon will use all his malice to introduce into the religious orders, persons given to sin, for disorders and the love of the pleasures of the flesh will be spread throughout the whole earth.
France, Italy, Spain, and England will be at war, blood will run in the streets, Frenchman will fight with Frenchman, Italian with Italian, then there will be a general war which will be horrible. For a time, God will no longer remember France or Italy, because the Gospel of Jesus Christ is no longer known. The wicked will deploy all their malice, men will kill, and massacre each other, even in their homes.
With the first blow of his sword of lightning, the mountains and all of nature will tremble with terror, because the disorders and the crimes of men pierce the vault of heaven. Paris will be burned and Marseille swallowed up; several large cities will be shaken and swallowed up by earthquakes: men will believe that all is lost; they will see only murders, they will hear only sounds of weapons and blasphemies. The just will suffer much; their prayers, their penance, and their tears will rise to Heaven, and all the people of God will ask for pardon and mercy, and will ask for my aid and intercession. Then Jesus Christ, by an act of His justice and His great mercy for the just, will command His angels to put all His enemies to death. At a single blow, the persecutors of the Church of Jesus Christ and all men given to sin will perish, and the earth will become like a desert. Then peace will be made, the reconciliation of God with men, 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 the 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 men will live in the fear of God.
This peace among men will not be long: twenty-five years of abundant harvests will make them forget that the sins of men are the cause of all the pains which arrive on earth.
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 shed much blood, and will wish to annihilate the worship of God to make himself regarded as a God.
The earth will be stricken with all sorts of wounds (besides the plague and famine which will be universal); there will be wars until the last war, which will be waged by the ten kings of the Antichrist, who will all have the same plan and who will be the only governors of the world. Before this happens, there will be a kind of false peace in the world and men will think only of diverting themselves, the wicked will deliver themselves to all sorts of sins, 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 that are most dear to me. Happy the humble souls led by the Holy Ghost! I will fight together with them until they come to the fullness of age.
Nature demands vengeance on mankind and shudders with horror in anticipation of what must come upon the earth sullied with crimes.
Tremble, earth, and you who profess to serve Jesus Christ and who, inside, adore yourselves, tremble, for God will deliver you to His enemy because the holy places are in corruption, many convents are no longer houses of God, but the pastures of Asmodeus and his followers.
It will be during this time that the Antichrist will be born, of a Hebrew nun, a false virgin who will communicate with the ancient serpent, the master of impurity, his father will be Ev.; at his birth, he will vomit blasphemies, he will have teeth; in a word, he will be the devil incarnate; he will scream horribly, he will work wonders, he will feed only on impurities. He will have brothers, who, although not devils incarnate like him, will be children of evil; at the age of twelve, they will be remarked upon for the valiant victories they will win; soon, they shall each be at the head of armies, assisted by the legions of hell.
The seasons will be changed, the earth will produce only bad fruits, the heavenly bodies will lose their regular movements, the moon will reflect only a faint reddish light; water and fire will give the globe of the earth convulsive movements and horrible tremblings of the earth, which will swallow mountains, cities, (etc.)
Rome will lose the faith and become the seat of the Antichrist.
The demons of the air, with the Antichrist, will perform great prodigies on the earth and in the air, and men will become more and more perverted. God will have care of His faithful servants and men of good will; the Gospel will be preached everyone, all peoples and all nations will have knowledge of the truth!
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 true Savior of men, I call upon my children, my true devotees, those who have given themselves to me so that I may lead them to my divine Son, those whom I carry, so to speak, in my arms, who have lived in my spirit; finally, I call upon the Apostles of the Last Times, the faithful disciples of Jesus Christ, who have lived in contempt of the world and of themselves, in poverty and humility, in contempt and silence, in prayer and mortification, in chastity and in union with God, in suffering and unknown to the world. It is time that they come forth and illumine the world. Go, and show yourselves to be my cherished children, I am with you and in you, as long as your faith is the light that illumines you in these days of misfortune. May your zeal make you famished for the glory and honor of Jesus Christ. Fight, children of light, you, the few who can see, for now is the time of times, the end of ends.
The Church will be eclipsed, the world will be in consternation. But see, Enoch and Elias 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 Ghost and will condemn the diabolical errors of the Antichrist.
Woe to the inhabitants of the earth! There will be bloody wars and famines, plagues and contagious diseases, there will be showers of a frightful hail of animals, thunder that will shake cities, earthquakes that will swallow countries, voices will be heard in the air, men will beat their heads against walls, they will call for death, and yet death will be their torment; blood will flow on all sides. Who could overcome it, if God did not shorten the time of the ordeal? By the blood, the tears and the prayers of the just, God will relent, Enoch and Elias will be put to death, pagan Rome will disappear; fire from Heaven will fall and consume three cities; all the universe will be stricken with terror, and many will let themselves be seduced because they have not adored the true Christ living among them. It is time, the sun is darkening, only faith will survive.
Now is the time, the abyss is opening. See the king of the kings of darkness. See the beast with his subjects, calling himself the “Savior” of the world. He will raise himself with pride into the air to mount to heaven; he will be suffocated by the breath of St. Michael the Archangel. He will fall, and the earth, which, for three days, will be in continual convulsions, will open its bosom full of fire, and he will be plunged forever with all his followers into the eternal chasms of hell. Then water and fire will purify the earth and consume all the works of men’s pride, and all will be renewed: God will be served and glorified.
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Extract of a Letter Dated May 16, 1904, Addressed by Melanie to Monsieur L’Abbé Henri Rigaux Curé d’Argoeuvres
Now finding myself in my old age, and by the grace of God enjoying the full liberty of my soul, I certify before His Majesty the Most High, that the Secret printed at Lecce with the Imprimatur of Monsignor Zola in 1879 is such as I received it from our sweet Mother Mary and such as I had given it in 1878 and a second time in 1879 to His Holiness Leo XIII.
I must say that the Secret has been approved by His Eminence Cardinal Sixtus Riario Sforza, Archbishop of Naples, by Mgr. Mariano Ricciardo, Archbishop of Sorrento, by His Eminence Cardinal Guidi, by Monsignor Consolini, then by Monsignor Petagna, Bishop of Castellamare di Stabia, who was my protector for seventeen years, that is to say until his holy death.
Among the Princes of the Church who have approved the Secret, I was forgetting His Eminence Cardinal Ferrieri, whom I place in the second rank. That makes three Cardinals of the Roman Church, all very wise and above all, very holy.
Letter of Melanie Calvat to Monsieur de la Rive, October 18, 1904 (two months before her death)
Most venerated Monsieur de la Rive,
I am most grateful that, in this time of dead faith, you have dared to publish the Secret of Christian France, just as I had published it in 1879, with the imprimatur of Monseigneur Zola, Bishop of Lecce (Italy), and that I had reprinted this year in Lyon, before leaving France.
I highly protest any different text that anyone may dare to publish after my death.
I protest, further:
1) the false claims of those who have dared to say and write that I embroidered the Secret;
2) those who affirm that the Queen of Wisdom did not say to pass on the Secret to all her people.
On this 18th of October 1904
Melanie Calvat
Shepherdess of La Salette