La Salette and KnockTwo messages from heaven that we now witness in our time.An allegorical interpretation given to me Cassini that I have expanded on.
Heaven’s awareness of the freemasonic revolution against Christ and His Church was made known first to a French nun Sister Marie de St Pierre (1816-1848) and then by her request at La Salette in France on Sept. 19, 1846, where a crowned Mother of God appeared to two children. On a lone mountainside near La Salette, France, on the eve of Our Lady of Sorrows, during the month of the Holy Cross, on the beautiful day of September 19, 1846, Our Lady appeared to two peasant shepherd children named Melanie Calvat and Maximin Giraud. She wept almost for the duration of the apparition, sometimes burying her tear-covered face in her own hands. Melanie would lament that she could not console the beautiful Lady. In this apparition the Mother of God spoke to the children, asking prayers and penance to help her prevent the arm of her Son from falling over mankind for their sins. She also gave secrets to each of the children. Twice, toward the end of this apparition, Our Lady said, “Well, my children, you will make this known to all my people.” Here are some of the words she spoke that are part of those secrets she gave to the children to spread:
(1) Rome will lose the faith and become the seat of the Antichrist;
(2) Woe to the Princes of the Church who will not be occupied except to pile up riches upon riches, to safeguard their authority and to dominate with pride;
(3) The priests, ministers of my Son, by their wicked lives, their irreverence and their impiety in the celebration of the Holy Mysteries, by their love of money, their love of honours and pleasures, the priests have become cesspools of impurity;
(4) Many convents are no longer houses of God, but the pastures of Asmodeas [the Devil of impurity] and his sort;
(5) The Church will have a frightful crisis. The Church will be in eclipse, the world will be in dismay.
The messages were met with furious opposition from many bishops. It seems the masons and some masonic-controlled clergy already ensconced in the Church did not want any such messages to be taken seriously. Eventually, three popes, Pius IX, Leo XIII and Pius X, eventually approved this apparition.
Thirty-three years after the apparition, on 20th August 1879, a basilica at La Salette was consecrated, and the following day, August 21st, the cardinal Archbishop of Paris in France (representing the Melchisedech Priesthood and Melchisedech Kingship) performed a canonical coronation of the statue of the Virgin of La Salette according to the prescription of the sacred Congregation of Rites.
On the very same day as this coronation, 21st August 1879, as only heaven can co-ordinate, there occurred an active but silent apparition at Knock, a small town (red dot) in west Connaught, Ireland, a place ‘ruggedly inhospitable and not conducive for agriculture.’
On a miserable wet evening, in a meadow field outside the gable-end of the Knock church of St John the Baptist, a small chapel ‘dedicated to all the nations of the world,’ there occurred an active but silent apparition (i.e., the figures were speaking but could not be heard). The vision, which lit the immediate area with a brilliant light, included images of a praying St Joseph, a crowned Virgin Mary, St John the Evangelist, and against the wall, the Lamb on a bare altar with a cross behind and above it in the traditional manner found in churches of the time, it of course representing Christ and the Sacrifice of the Catholic Latin Mass said inside the church of St John the Baptist, the Mass codified at the Council of Trent (1545-1563). Never before in history did such an altar and lamb appear in any such vision. Surrounding the altar were spots of brighter light, representing angels, as in Genesis I, ‘and God said, be light made.’ This vision, mounted on an invisible platform over the tall grass, showed St Joseph with hands joined, face bowed looking towards Mary and the altar; and the Blessed Virgin, with her arms held apart as the priest does at the sacrifice of the Mass, praying to heaven. Add to this was a vested and mitred St John, superimposed between Mary and the altar, holding a book (his Apocalypse?) in one hand while gesturing in a preaching stance with the other. St Joseph, with his head bowed and glancing sideways, was isolated, separated by a mysterious black line, noticed only by a few of the observers and seldom mentioned in books on the apparition.
Replica of apparition and pasted image as seen outside the church of St John the Baptist
The Parish Priest of Knock at the time was Archdeacon Cavanagh, a saintly man, full of devotion to Our Lady and her Immaculate Conception. In May of 1879, Fr Cavanagh began a novena of 100 Masses for the souls in Purgatory, the final Mass being said on the morning of the day that the vision appeared, but as divine Providence would have it, this saintly priest was not to witness the vision. A reason for this could be to save the vision from accusations of being conjured up by a priest so pious and spiritual that the world may not have believed him, suggesting it was a hallucination. Instead it was to be witnessed by a group of fifteen people, men and women of all ages, from five to seventy-five, the likes of which could be found anywhere in the world among ‘all nations.’ Such a group could not be said to have had similar illusions, nor could a motive for any conspiracy be levelled at them all. Great miracles later gave final witness to its authenticity, indeed my own sister was cured of St Vitas Dance after one visit to Knock.
‘Though the Knock witnesses experienced various emotions – happiness, wonder, devotion, exaltation of spirit, one being moved to tears – not one of them was rapt in ecstasy. None of them heard a word; neither did they receive any interior message or sign. That the Mother of God, who bade Bernadette pray for sinners, who had pleaded for conversion of life at La Salette,…. should have remained silent to her devoted Irish children was, and still is, a stumbling block to many. There was no message, they say, so the Apparition is devoid of meaning.’ ( Mary Purcell,
Our Lady of Knock, p.18.)
Of course there was a message, similar to every other message from Heaven, warning of dangers and ways to save souls. Heaven does not indulge in meaningless pictures, but few, if any, could/can fully understand this strange apparition in 1879. It is obvious the apparition at Knock cannot be interpreted by way of theological norms, that is, like looking at a holy picture portraying a biblical scene. The main reason for this is because Knock was not a simple ‘Marian’ message but almost certainly a Johannine one, and, like parts of St John’s Apocalypse (book of revelations), has to be read in an allegorical sense. So, we can ask, (1) How can it be interpreted? (2) Why Knock: (3) Why was it silent? (4) What could the message of Knock be telling us?
I can finish this paper once again if requested.
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