Virgin Mary"s Secret of La Salette Revealed
Rene Laurentin published the secrets of La Salette in a book titled Discovery of the Secrets of La Salette.
* Prior to that time, the secrets, which warned of the abolishment of civil and ecclesiastical rights and a church- government apostasy, had only been published in a few books.
John Beever's out-of- print classic The Sun Her Mantle, is the starting point for anyone interested in the La Salette secrets.
Encountering Mary: From La Salette To Medijugorje, by Sandra L.
Zimdars-Swartz, is well written and researched and contains insights into Rome's initial reaction to the La Salette secrets.
Janice T.
Connell sets forth the text of the La Salette secrets in Meetings With Mary: Visions Of The Blessed Virgin Mother.
The text can also be found in The Thunder Of Justice, by Ted and Maureen Flynn which includes a forward by Fr.
Malichi Martin.
Prior to the release of Father Laurentin's book, the La Salette secrets had only been mentioned in books and articles by Jean Stern, M.
Le Hidec and a few other Marian writers and researchers.
Readers well versed in French will enjoy La Salette seer Melanie Calvat's 1879 account of her experiences.
As Beevers notes, the Vatican banned this book by the Marian seer even though it had approved the La Salette apparition.
The thought that those in control of Christ's church would ban a book containing messages from His mother seems very revealing.
In addition to these fine books, much information can be found online about the messages and secrets of the Blessed Virgin Mary during the Modern Marian Era which began in 1830 and is still unfolding today.
In addition to websites and articles, there are several U-Tube videos which deal with the Third Secret of Fatima and changes which the Roman Catholic Church is undergoing since Vatican II.
One of the most controversial issues in the Church today deals with the authenticity of the Third Secret of Fatima which the Church claims it fully released in 2000.
Pope Benedict XVI, however is one of many Catholics who contend this Fatima secret was tampered with.
Many who read the Third Secret contend that like messages at La Salette and Bayside, it warned of the Church's present priest sex abuse scandal which brought on a loss of faith predicted by Our Lady.
One of the most learned writers and thinkers about critical Modern Marian Era issues was Father Malichi Martin who read the Third Secret prior to writing several books of fiction and non-fiction.
* Fr.
Michel Corteville co-authored the book.