[AnAmericanMother]

Actually "lacrima" is a noun meaning "a tear". "Lacrimae" is the plural. That is the title of a fairly famous song with lute accompaniment by John Dowland - "Lacrimae - or Seven Teares" a/k/a "Flow My Tears". Here's a marvelous performance by countertenor Andreas Scholl: Flow My Teares

My daughter refers to it as "Renaissance Emo" - not far off the mark, but still gorgeous.

La Salette means "the little room" in French. The village of that name, site of an apparition of the Blessed Virgin, is tucked into a tiny valley high in the Alps.

The particular apparition is known as "La Vierge qui pleure" - the Virgin who weeps - because when the children first saw her she had her face in her hands, weeping.

[SuziQ]

Thanks for all that info! There have been so many apparitions, most of them non-sanctioned, that I don’t know them all. I only learned of “Our Lady of Knock” when we moved up North. I guess there weren’t enough recently arrived Irish folks where I grew up, as there are up here in MA.