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Home Town or Home Community:
Forget, SK
Our Story:
The shrine name originates from La Salette, France where Mary appeared to two cattle herders, Melanie Mathieu, age 14, and Maximin Giraud, 11.
The political situation in France at the time was in a turmoil even though the village of Corps where the boy and girl lived was situated in the diocese of Grenoble in the serenic beauty of the French Alps. Everywhere, new ideas were circulating; religion was under attack, fewer people attended Sunday Mass, and the sacraments were neglected.
The apparition took place on the afternoon ...more Story
Related Links:
Our Lady of the Prairies Foundation
Western Development Museum
Contact:
Our Lady of the Prairies Foundation
Box 22076
Saskatoon SK S4A 1Y4
Canada
info@ourladyfoundation.org
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