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Meet Our Lady of La Salette – Fr.. Dr. Simão Baccelli – www.valde.com.br MEET THE SALETTE HISTORY OF THE MOVING APPARITION OF MARIA SSMA. IN PRANTO Fr. Dr. Simão Baccelli, M.S. 1952 EDIÇÕES PAULINAS BRAZIL 1 Meet Our Lady of La Salette – Fr.. Dr. Simão Baccelli – www.valde.com.br 2 Meet Our Lady of La Salette – Fr.. Dr. Simão Baccelli – www.valde.com.br Seen by delegation of the Superior São Paulo. December 2, 1952 Fr. Guido Pettinati On behalf of the Pious Society of St. Paul You can print São Paulo, May 30, 1953 Fr. Celeste Lenta, S.S.P. "Nihil obstat" Rio de Janeiro, April 19, 1952 Pu. André Dugust, Sup. Prov., M.S. "Nihil obstat" Rio, November 4, 1952 Msgr. Henrique de Magalhães (Censor Member) Print Rio, November 11, 1952 R. Costa Rego, Archbishop. Tit. Vicar General 3 Meet Our Lady of La Salette – Fr.. Dr. Simão Baccelli – www.valde.com.br Author's Preface On the occasion of the solemnities commemorating the centenary of the Apparition of Our Lady of La Salette in the capital of the country, an illustrious and very good friend of ours, a member of the working Brazilian Episcopate, asked us unexpectedly: "So, there is no way of having a proper book on La Salette?" with a low voice, we replied that in the embryonic state there was a project in our minds, but.... In this ill-fated but more than a few excuses, such as the urgent and continuous service of vicar of a populous parish, the concerns of the superior, at a very advanced age, and also, a major obstacle, our deficiency in the Portuguese language. This rich language we did not receive from our maternal lips, but it came to us as if by force, at a time of life when we only missed adolescence, resulting - as we have too much noticed - in a rather inappropriate instrument in our hands. Let this be stated outright, not to provoke the usual "unsupported", but in the sense of a sincere appeal to the benevolence of the dear reader, kind enough to reveal our imperfections, perhaps, our errors of language. In our case, moreover, it is not literature, but a religious event of the greatest importance, which is the marvellous Apparition of the Blessed Virgin Mary, in which she, in tears, as it has not happened up to now in any of its manifestations, has widely, energetically and maternally verbalized the deep religious and moral evils of our time, and for this reason has been so fought by some malicious and particularly by the declared enemies of religion. In the Catholic field, many, almost completely forgotten of the true purpose of the Virgin's message - that is, the people's return to Christ - limiting themselves to obstinately the fact, of every secondary, of the secrets, wrongly boasted of having unveiled them and were dreaming of moral heinousness and proclaiming catastrophes and the next end of the world, thus throwing the disgrace on the same apparition. Finally, others, keeping in the shadows of the acrisolated virtues, and showing themselves too much admired, with a hint of scandal, for certain aspects of the procedure of the seers, produce doubt and disturbance in the souls. This set of contrasts results in a dark-sightedness which overshadows the thoughts of not a few excellent people, but who were misinformed about the Apparition; and, in order to clarify them, there was no appropriate writing in Portuguese, - precisely another cousa did not mean the words of the Bishop. In this year of 1952, when the centenary of the Congregation of the Missionaries of Our Lady was taking place, there was no appropriate writing, - precisely another cousa did not mean the words of His Excellency the Bishop. of La Salette and the 4 Meet Our Lady of La Salette – Fr.. Dr. Simão Baccelli – www.valde.com.br fiftieth anniversary of her arrival in Brazil, in order to meet the manifest need, we decided to publish this book, in which we try, as God is served, not only to enter into the heart of the matter, illustrating the radiant truth, but also to examine its outlines and penetrate the arches of the enemies, the opponents and with due vengeance, the enlightened, to analyze and refute the unreasonable, and finally to point out the so beneficial radiations of the heavenly apparition. To this end, we have been compiling what we have read in numerous books, especially those of the intrepid and illustrated defenders and glorifiers of the great event today. In fact, there is the widest documentation concerning the fact of La Salette, as the bibliography, although incomplete at the outset, shows. Grant, O N. Sra. de La Salette, our Queen and Mother, that this humble missionary of yours may place at your feet this modest work which he has already done at the end of his life in order to carry out your final command: "Well, my children, you will transmit all this to all my people". Lay your powerful blessing on her to appreciate her, drop your tears to give her warmth, and so into the hearts of your people that she may reach, deepen your sorrows and your message, expressed in mourning, there in your chosen Mount de La Salette. Dr. Simão Baccelli, M.S. 5 Meet Our Lady of La Salette – Fr.. Dr. Simão Baccelli – www.valde.com.br LETTER FROM THE SUPERIOR GENERAL OF THE MISSIONARIES OF OUR LADY DE LA SALETTE TO THE AUTHOR Father, You were well inspired in wanting to make available to the Portuguese-speaking nations the history of the Apparition of N. Sra. de La Salette. These nations, in fact, are privileged, for the Virgin Mary's Good Adventure for them manifested itself in the apparitions of Fatima, whose repercussions are increasing more and more and are rapidly reaching the whole Christian world. Now, Fatima is nothing but the repetition and prolongation of the merciful manifestation at La Salette. For this reason, the Catholics of Brazil will be grateful to you for making the event of La Salette known to them in its true aspect, stripping it of all that certain spirits, not minors, have tried to add to it in recent decades, under the inspiration of the intended secret of Melania. In this way you bear witness to your own primitive and public message, the only one which the Church has in her favor and which was approved only by the Ordinary responsible, Mgr. Felisberto de Bruillard, Bishop of Grenoble, in his Doctrinal Letter of 189 September 1841, in which he declared: "that the faithful have a basis for believing that the Apparition of La Salette is certain and undoubtable. May God grant that your work may give new impetus to the Marian devotion so strongly evoked in the Apparition of La Salette, a devotion which reanimates our faith and our trust in Mary's merciful love for our poor sinful souls, and which urges us to assist her with our prayers and our sacrifices so as to remove the just punishments of God from our unhappy humanity! Hopeful, then, I wish you every success in your undertaking in this land of Brazil, so devoted to Mary, and I bless you with all my heart. Rome, March 30, 1952. J. Imhof. M. S. Superior General 6 Meet Our Lady of La Salette – Fr.. Dr. Simão Baccelli – www.valde.com.br BIBLIOGRAPHY PREDICTING THE AUTHOR It is indispensable, in our opinion, that the dear reader take seriously the Bibliography presented here, because in it you will find the necessary clarifications about the books cited particularly in the various notes below the pages. After each citation there is, almost always, the number that the book has in this bibliography, for example "Notes Lagier", Bibliography 17. Bibliography by the date of publication of the various writings. 1) Pope Pius IX, due to the doctrinal sentence of the bishop of Grenoble, granted, in 1852, nine pardons in favor of the Shrine, the Missionaries, the Pilgrimage, the pilgrims of La Salette. In his own hand, on February 10, 1857, he granted many indulgences to the devotion of Our Lady of La Salette established in the church of the Rvmos. Recoletos de Saint Trond, Belgium; in 1858 the same indulgences to the rvmos. Passionist Fathers of Remonde, Holland (Pius IX in the first place, "Honoris causa"; for the Apparition was on 19-IX-1848 and various publications were soon to follow). 2) Archive concerning the La Salette of the Bishop of Grenoble, in which there are specifically the "Minutes" of the eight sessions of the Episcopal Commission, examiner of the fact of the Apparition, and copious correspondence; a report of the Apparition of January 30, 1847, by Father Orcel, secretary of the Bishop. 3) Archive of the Missionaries of Our Lady of La Salette, particularly in the house of the place of the Apparition (where in 1865 there were already 50,000 letters): A) Perrin Manuscripts, that is, those of Brothers Luiz and Tiago Michel Perrin, respectively vicar and curate of the Parish of La Salette, which began about fifteen days after the Apparition, from the beginning of October 1846 until May 1852, with the following titles: "1st Journal d'impressions des pélegrins; 2nd recueil de copies de lettres édifiantes; 3rd Recueil des faits extraordininaires obtenus par l'intercession de Notre Dame de La Salette; 4th Confraternity and Nouveau in the honour of Notre Dame Réconcliatrice de La Salette; 6th Plenary Letters unpublished." B) Manuscripts by Fr. Bossan, M.S., that is: "La Sainte Aparition de Notre Dame de La Salette et ses suites", 1st vol., written from February 12 to July 9, 1863; and 2nd vol., written from June 22 to October 30, 1863.

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