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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, (from the Gaelic word Cnoc, a hill), a small town (red dot) in west Connaught, Ireland, a place ‘ruggedly inhospitable and not conducive for agriculture.’ 
What happened was that 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 seen speaking but could not be heard). This vision, mounted on an invisible platform over the tall grass, seen only by way of different light colours, included images of a praying St Joseph on the left, his hands joined, face bowed looking towards a crowned Virgin Mary as in La Salette, with her arms held apart as the priest does at the sacrifice of the Mass, praying to heaven. They were separated by a mysterious black line, noticed only by a few of the observers and seldom mentioned in books on the apparition. Beside Mary was a vested and mitred St John the Evangelist shown preaching holding a book, probably his Book of Revelation, an apocalyptic literature that details visions of the end of ages as revealed by an angel or other heavenly messenger. Finally against the wall, was a Lamb on a bare altar with a cross, surrounded by angels, it of course representing Christ and the Sacrifice of the Mass re-enacting His crucifixion that opened heaven again for humanity. The living lamb must also represent Christ’s resurrection, and founding of the Catholic Church. After years of study of the vision as described by the seers, replica statutes were finally made and transported to the Knock site and erected to replicate the vision as depicted below.
Never before in history of apparitions did an altar and lamb appear, indicating the message surely meant something to do with the Mass. Indeed, Our Lady of La Salette wept, saying few even then went to Sunday Mass. The Mass of the time, said inside the church of St John the Baptist in 1879, was that Mass codified at the Council of Trent (1545-1563), the Tridentine Latin Mass.
Topic: Apparition the Blessed Virgin on the Mountain of La Salette (Read 698 times)