Our Lady
La Salette and KnockAn allegorical interpretation
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. Among the most poignant predictions was that: ‘Rome will lose the faith and become the seat of the Antichrist.’ Three popes, Pius IX, Leo XIII and Pius X, approved this apparition, but the message was met with furious opposition from many bishops. It seems the Masons and some Masonic-controlled clergy already ensconced in the Church, must not have wanted any such revelations to be taken seriously.
Thirty-three years after the apparition, on 20th August 1879, a basilica at La Salette was consecrated, and the following day, August 21st, the Archbishop of Paris in France (representing the Melchisedech Priesthood and Melchisedech Kingship) crowned the statue of the Virgin of La Salette according to the prescription of the sacred Congregation of Rites. Heaven’s awareness, it seems, was given new impetus.
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 in west Connaught, Ireland, a place ‘ruggedly inhospitable and not conducive for agriculture.’
On that miserable wet night, in a meadow field outside the gable-end of the church of St John the Baptist, a small church ‘dedicated to all the nations of the world,’ there occurred an active but silent (i.e., the figures were speaking but could not be heard) apparition at Knock, that small town in Connaught. The apparition, which lit the immediate area with a brilliant light, included magnificent images of St Joseph (Powers-Priesthood-Tiara), the Virgin Mary, Saint John the Evangelist (Powers-Priesthood-Tiara), and a forlorn Lamb on an empty altar (Holy Sacrifice of the Mass) surrounded by angels, it of course representing Christ and the Sacrifice of the Catholic Latin Mass of the time, codified at the Council of Trent (1545-1563), all bathed in a wondrous light. This vision, mounted on an invisible platform a few feet above the tall grass, showed a crowned Blessed Virgin, with her hands held up praying to heaven. It showed a vested and mitred St John in full Mass vestments, superimposed between Mary and the Lamb, holding a book (his book of Revelation?) in one hand while gesturing in a preaching stance with the other. St Joseph, with his head bowed glancing sideways, was isolated, separated by a mysterious black line, noticed only by a few of the selected observers and seldom mentioned in books on the apparition.
Of course there was a message, similar to every other message from Heaven, all trying to save souls. Heaven does not indulge in meaningless pictures, but few, if any, could/can interpret this strange apparition of Knock because of its kind. The main reason for this is probably because Knock was not a proper ‘Marian’ message or prophesy, but a Johannine one, and, like his Apocalypse, has to be read in an allegorical sense, a form of exegesis thrown out by Martin Luther and one that is hardly ever found among modern Catholics. Thus a considerable amount of research on the place and its history and timing is needed to begin to try to interpret the message or warning. So, we can ask: (1) Why Knock: (2) To whom was it addressed: (3) Why was it silent: (4) What was it trying to tell us?