La Salette, Isère

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La Salette.
Notre-Dame de la Salette.jpg

La Salette is a small mountaintop village near Grenoble, France. It is part of the commune of La Salette-Fallavaux, which is situated in the Isère-département in the Rhône-Alpes-region.

It is most noted for an apparition of the Virgin Mary that was reported in 1846 by two shepherd children, Mélanie Calvat and Maximin Giraud, followed by numerous accounts of miraculous healings.

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Coordinates: 44°49′N 5°57′E / 44.817°N 5.95°E / 44.817; 5.95

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