On September 19, 1864, a "Beautiful lady" appeared to two children of Corps in the French Alps. Maximin Giraud, 11, and Melanie Calvat, 14, who were watching their few cows on the slopes of the village of La Salette, about 5800 feet above sea level. She was seated and weeping, then she rose and spoke to the children at some length, in French and in their dialect, weeping all the time. Then she climb a path and vanished into the light. The brightness of which she was made emanated from a crucifix on her breast, surrounded by a hammer and pincers, chains and roses. On September 19, 1851, after a thorough investigation of the event, the children, and the content of the message, His Excellency Philibert de Bruillard, bishopof Grenoble, determined in a pastrol letter that "The apparition of the Blessed Virgin to, two shepherds on the mountain of La Salette.... bears within itself all the characteristics of truth and that the faithful have grounds for believing it to be certain and beyond doubt".

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