Our Lady of La Salette is the name given to an apparition of the Virgin Mary who appeared to two shepherd children--Maximin Giraud and Melanie Calvat--near the mountaintop village of La Salette, near Grenoble, France in 1846.
It is one of the most important Marian sanctuaries in the world. There are at least four striking similarities with the later visions of Fatima, Portugal in 1917: the apparition was short and dressed in strange clothes; she appeared to illiterate children; there was a message of violent destruction of humanity if they did not repent; and there was the deliverance of a secret that was supposed to be kept and revealed to the Pope later.
There are some who even believe that the true secret is too frightening to be revealed. Melanie Calvat became a controversial figure--refusing to play the role of the serene nun hidden away in a cloister--and isolated herself from the official Church. She was a rebel and had no patience for the world of priests, bishops, and popes.
When she revealed in a tract in 1858 that the secret said, among many other apocalyptical predictions, that "Rome will lose the Faith and become the seat of the Antichrist", Melanie Calvat was summarily ostracized and her works put on the Index of Prohibited Books.
Perhaps it was this final, controversial ending to the events of this famous vision that caused La Salette to lose its glory and fall back into the slumber of a minor site of Catholic pilgrimage. -- Our Lady of La Salette
"I address an urgent appeal to the earth: I summon the true disciples of God who lives and reigns in heaven; I summon the true imitators of Christ made man, the one true Savior of men; I summon My children, My true devotees, those who have given themselves to Me so that I might lead them to My divine Son, those whom I carry, so to speak, in My arms, those who have lived according to My spirit; finally, I summon the Apostles of the Latter Times, the faithful disciples of Jesus Christ who have lived in scorn of the world and of 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 for them to arise and come forth to enlighten the earth." "Go, and show yourselves as My cherished children; I am with you and in you, provided that your faith be the light that enlightens you in these days of woe. May your zeal cause you to be as famished for the glory and honor of Jesus Christ. Fight, children of light, you little number who see; for behold the time of times, the end of ends." -- Apparition of Our Lady at La Salette
This message is, IMHO directed to the faithful who have a reverence for the Sacred Dogma and Tradition of the One True Church.