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The Judgment of Nations - XVI
The Complete Version of the
1878 Secret of La Salette
Our Lady gave a Secret to Melanie Calvat in French during the apparition of September 19, 1846, and told her to publish it in 1858. It took 20 years for her to fulfill that request. Only in 1878 did Melanie receive permission for its publication with the Imprimatur of Bishop Salvatore Luigi Zola of Lecce.
She would defend until her death its authenticity, although, about one-third of the 1878 text was presented in a different order without her consent. (1) This is an interesting point, as anyone who carefully reads the Secret senses that some of the numbered items are out of place.
The first thing I did upon receiving the book was to see if, in fact, the well-known prophecy "Rome will lose the Faith and become the seat of the Antichrist” was included in this full version of 1878. It was there, No. 28 in the points, as you can see below. You can find the “priests have become cesspools of impurity” in No. 2.
What follows below is the full Secret, revealed and issued, with the approval of the Vatican (2)
The 1878 Secret
1. Melanie, what I am about to tell you now will not always be secret. You can publish it in 1858.
2. The priests, ministers of my Son, by their wicked manner of life, by their irreverence and impiety in celebrating the Holy Mysteries, by their love of money, honor and pleasures,
priests have become cesspools of impurity. Yes, the sins of priests cry out for vengeance, and vengeance looms over their heads.
Woe to those priests and persons consecrated to God, who by their infidelity and wicked lives, are crucifying my Son again! The sins of those consecrated to God scream to Heaven and call for vengeance, and behold, vengeance is at their door, since there is no longer anyone to implore mercy and forgiveness for the people. There are no more generous souls, no one worthy anymore to offer the unblemished Victim to the Eternal on behalf of the world.
3. God will strike in an unprecedented manner.
4. Woe to the inhabitants of the earth! God will exhaust his wrath, and no one will be able to escape from so many transgressions!... [Melanie’s ellipses ]
5. The heads, the leaders of God’s people, have neglected prayer and penance, and the Demon has obscured their minds. They have become those roving stars that the old Devil will drag with his tail in order to cause them to perish. God will permit the old serpent to cause strife among the rulers, among all social bodies, and in every family. There will be physical and moral suffering. God will leave people to themselves and will send chastisements that will succeed one after another for more than 35 years.
6. Society is on the threshold of the most terrible calamities and of the greatest events; each should prepare to be governed by an iron rod and to drink the chalice of the wrath of God.
7. May the Vicar of my Son, the Supreme Pontiff Pius IX, remain in Rome after the year 1859. May he be firm and generous. May he fight with the weapons of faith and love; I will be with him.
8. Let him be wary of Napoleon [III]. He is double-hearted as one who wishes to make himself pope as well as emperor. God will soon withdraw from him. He is like an eagle, who, always wanting to soar higher, will fall upon the sword that he was using to force the people to exalt him.
9. Italy will be punished for her ambition in wanting to shake off the yoke of the Lord of Lords. Hence, she will be handed over to war. Blood will flow on all sides. Churches will be closed or desecrated. Priests and religious will be driven out. They will be put to death, and to a cruel death. Some will abandon the Faith, and the number of priests and religious who will separate from the True Religion will be enormous. Among these there will even be Bishops.
10. Let the Pope beware of those who perform marvels, for the time will come when the most astounding prodigies will take place on the ground and in the air.
11. In the year --64, Lucifer, with a great number of demons will be unleashed from Hell. They will abolish faith little by little, even in those consecrated to God. They will blind them in such a way that, unless there is a special grace, these persons will take on the spirit of the fallen angels. Various religious institutions will lose the Faith altogether and will lose many souls.
12. Bad books will abound on the earth, and the spirits of darkness will spread everywhere a universal laxity towards anything that concerns the service of God. They will have a very great power over nature. There will be churches to serve these spirits.
These evil spirits will transport people from one place to another, and even priests, because they will not have cooperated with the good spirit of the Gospel which is a spirit of humility, charity, and zeal for the glory of God.
They will raise up the dead. There will be extraordinary prodigies everywhere because the true Faith has been extinguished and the false light illuminates the world.
Woe to the Princes of the Church who will be busy only to pile riches upon riches, to preserve their authority and to dominate with pride.
13. The Vicar of my Son will have much to suffer, because for a time the Church will be severely persecuted. This will be the time of darkness. The Church will undergo a frightful crisis.
14. The holy Faith of God will be forgotten. Each individual will want to be his own guide and to be above his fellow men. Civil and ecclesiastical powers will be abolished. All order and justice will be trodden under foot. Nothing will be seen but homicide, hatred, jealousy, lies and discord, without love for fatherland or for family.
15. The Holy Father will suffer greatly. I will be with him until the end, to receive his sacrifice.
16. The wicked will make several attempts on his life without being able to shorten his days; but neither he nor his successor... will see the triumph of the Church of God. [Melanie’s ellipses]
17. Civil rulers will all have the same design, which will be to abolish and eliminate all religious principles, so as to make room for materialism, atheism, spiritism, and all kinds of vices.
18. In the year --65 the abomination will be seen in the holy places. In the convents the flowers of the Church will be putrefied and the Demon will establish himself as the king of their hearts. May the heads of religious communities beware about the persons they admit, because the Demon will apply all his malice to introduce into religious Orders persons given over to sin, because disorders and the love of carnal pleasures will be spread all over the earth.
19. France, Italy, Spain and England will be at war. Blood will flow in the streets. The French will fight against the French, the Italians against the Italians. Then there will be a general war that will be appalling. For a time, God will remember neither France nor Italy, because the Gospel of Jesus Christ is no longer known. The wicked will deploy all their malice. There will be killing and mutual massacre even inside the houses.
20. At the first stroke of His lightening sword, the mountains and all of nature will tremble with terror, because the lawlessness and the crimes of men will have pierced the vault of heaven. Paris will be burned and Marseilles engulfed. Several great cities will be shaken and engulfed by earthquakes. It will be believed that all is lost. Only homicides will be seen. Only the sound of weapons and blasphemy will be heard. The righteous will suffer much. Their prayers, their penance, and their tears will mount to heaven, and all the people of God will ask pardon and mercy, and will ask for my help and intercession.
Then, Jesus Christ by an act of His justice and His great mercy for the righteous, will command His Angels to put all His enemies to death. Suddenly, all the persecutors of the Church of Jesus Christ and all men given to sin will perish, and the earth will become like a desert. Then there will be peace, reconciliation between God and men. Jesus Christ will be served, adored and glorified. Charity will blossom everywhere.
The new kings will be the right arm of the Holy Church, which will be strong, humble, pious, poor, zealous, imitating the virtues of Jesus Christ. The Gospel will be preached everywhere, and mankind will make great progress in the faith, because there will be unity among the workers of Jesus Christ, and men will live in the fear of God.
21. This peace among men will not last long. Twenty-five years of abundant harvests will make them forget that the sins of men are the cause of all the pains that come upon the earth.
22. A forerunner of the Antichrist, with his troops of several nations will fight against the true Christ, the only Savior of the world. He will shed much blood and will want to annihilate the worship of God in order to have himself considered as god. The earth will be stricken with all sorts of plagues (besides pestilence and famine which will be widespread). There will be wars, until the last war, led by the ten kings of the Antichrist, who all aim at the same goal and who will be the only ones ruling the world. Before this happens, there will be a kind of false peace in the world.
Thought will be given only to entertainment. The wicked will indulge in all sorts of sins, but the children of the Holy Church, the children of Faith, my true imitators, will grow in the love of God and in the virtues which are dearest to me. Blessed are the humble souls guided by the Holy Spirit! I shall fight at their side until they reach the fullness of the age.
24. Nature demands vengeance for men, and it trembles with terror in anticipation of what will happen to the earth soiled with crimes.
25. Tremble, earth! And you, who profess to serve Jesus Christ but, in your hearts only worship yourselves, tremble; since God will hand you over to His enemy, because the holy places are places of corruption. Many convents are no longer houses of God but pastures for Asmodeus [the devil of impurity] and his own.
26. During this time the Antichrist will be born of a Hebrew nun, a false virgin, who will have had communication with the old serpent, the master of impurity. His father will be a bishop. At his birth he will vomit blasphemies. He will have teeth; in a word, this will be the devil incarnate. He will let out frightful screams. He will perform prodigies. He will feed only on impurities. He will have brothers who, though they are not like him, demons incarnate, will be children of evil. At 12 years old, they will draw attention upon themselves by the brilliant victories they carry off. Soon each of them will be at the head of armies, helped by the legions of Hell.
27. The seasons will be changed. The earth will produce only bad fruit. The stars will lose their regular movement. The moon will reflect only a faint reddish light. Water and fire will give to the globe of the earth convulsive movements and horrible earthquakes, which engulf mountains, cities, et cetera... [Melanie’s ellipses]
28. Rome will lose the Faith and become the seat of the Antichrist.
29. The demons of the air, together with the Antichrist, will perform great prodigies on the earth and in the air, and men will become more and more perverted. God will take care of His faithful servants and men of good will. The Gospel will be preached everywhere. All the peoples and all the nations will have knowledge of the truth!
30. I address an urgent call to the earth;
32. Woe to the inhabitants of the earth! There will be bloody wars and famine, plagues and contagious diseases. There will be downpours of an appalling hail of pests; thunders which shake cities; and earthquakes which will swallow up countries. Voices will be heard in the air. Men will beat their heads against the walls. They will call for death, and on the other hand, death will be their torment. Blood will flow on all sides.
Who can overcome if God does not shorten the time of trial? By the blood, tears and prayers of the righteous, God will permit Himself to be moved. Enoch and Elias will be put to death. Pagan Rome will disappear. The fire of heaven will fall and consume three cities. The whole universe will be struck with terror, and many will be led astray because they had not adored the true Christ, living among them. It is the time when the sun will darken. Faith alone will live.
33. Behold the time. The abyss opens up. Behold the king of the kings of darkness, behold the Beast with its subjects, calling itself the savior of the world. He will rise with pride into the air in order to attain heaven. He will be suffocated by the breath of Saint Michael the Archangel. He will fall, and the earth, which for three days had been in continuous convulsions, will open its bosom full of fire. He will be plunged forever, with his subjects, into the eternal chasms of Hell. Then water and fire will purify the earth and consume all the works of men’s pride, and all will be renewed: God will be served and glorified!
To be continued
She would defend until her death its authenticity, although, about one-third of the 1878 text was presented in a different order without her consent. (1) This is an interesting point, as anyone who carefully reads the Secret senses that some of the numbered items are out of place.
No longer a question: This is part of the official Secret of La Salette
What follows below is the full Secret, revealed and issued, with the approval of the Vatican (2)
The 1878 Secret
1. Melanie, what I am about to tell you now will not always be secret. You can publish it in 1858.
God will strike in an unprecedented manner
Woe to those priests and persons consecrated to God, who by their infidelity and wicked lives, are crucifying my Son again! The sins of those consecrated to God scream to Heaven and call for vengeance, and behold, vengeance is at their door, since there is no longer anyone to implore mercy and forgiveness for the people. There are no more generous souls, no one worthy anymore to offer the unblemished Victim to the Eternal on behalf of the world.
3. God will strike in an unprecedented manner.
4. Woe to the inhabitants of the earth! God will exhaust his wrath, and no one will be able to escape from so many transgressions!... [Melanie’s ellipses ]
5. The heads, the leaders of God’s people, have neglected prayer and penance, and the Demon has obscured their minds. They have become those roving stars that the old Devil will drag with his tail in order to cause them to perish. God will permit the old serpent to cause strife among the rulers, among all social bodies, and in every family. There will be physical and moral suffering. God will leave people to themselves and will send chastisements that will succeed one after another for more than 35 years.
6. Society is on the threshold of the most terrible calamities and of the greatest events; each should prepare to be governed by an iron rod and to drink the chalice of the wrath of God.
7. May the Vicar of my Son, the Supreme Pontiff Pius IX, remain in Rome after the year 1859. May he be firm and generous. May he fight with the weapons of faith and love; I will be with him.
8. Let him be wary of Napoleon [III]. He is double-hearted as one who wishes to make himself pope as well as emperor. God will soon withdraw from him. He is like an eagle, who, always wanting to soar higher, will fall upon the sword that he was using to force the people to exalt him.
1846: Our Lady warned about Napoleon III;
1848: He became President of France;
1852: He self-proclaimed himself Emperor
10. Let the Pope beware of those who perform marvels, for the time will come when the most astounding prodigies will take place on the ground and in the air.
11. In the year --64, Lucifer, with a great number of demons will be unleashed from Hell. They will abolish faith little by little, even in those consecrated to God. They will blind them in such a way that, unless there is a special grace, these persons will take on the spirit of the fallen angels. Various religious institutions will lose the Faith altogether and will lose many souls.
12. Bad books will abound on the earth, and the spirits of darkness will spread everywhere a universal laxity towards anything that concerns the service of God. They will have a very great power over nature. There will be churches to serve these spirits.
These evil spirits will transport people from one place to another, and even priests, because they will not have cooperated with the good spirit of the Gospel which is a spirit of humility, charity, and zeal for the glory of God.
They will raise up the dead. There will be extraordinary prodigies everywhere because the true Faith has been extinguished and the false light illuminates the world.
Woe to the Princes of the Church who will be busy only to pile riches upon riches, to preserve their authority and to dominate with pride.
13. The Vicar of my Son will have much to suffer, because for a time the Church will be severely persecuted. This will be the time of darkness. The Church will undergo a frightful crisis.
14. The holy Faith of God will be forgotten. Each individual will want to be his own guide and to be above his fellow men. Civil and ecclesiastical powers will be abolished. All order and justice will be trodden under foot. Nothing will be seen but homicide, hatred, jealousy, lies and discord, without love for fatherland or for family.
15. The Holy Father will suffer greatly. I will be with him until the end, to receive his sacrifice.
16. The wicked will make several attempts on his life without being able to shorten his days; but neither he nor his successor... will see the triumph of the Church of God. [Melanie’s ellipses]
Satan is publicly displayed & adored, & trying to be represented in schools
18. In the year --65 the abomination will be seen in the holy places. In the convents the flowers of the Church will be putrefied and the Demon will establish himself as the king of their hearts. May the heads of religious communities beware about the persons they admit, because the Demon will apply all his malice to introduce into religious Orders persons given over to sin, because disorders and the love of carnal pleasures will be spread all over the earth.
19. France, Italy, Spain and England will be at war. Blood will flow in the streets. The French will fight against the French, the Italians against the Italians. Then there will be a general war that will be appalling. For a time, God will remember neither France nor Italy, because the Gospel of Jesus Christ is no longer known. The wicked will deploy all their malice. There will be killing and mutual massacre even inside the houses.
‘Paris will be burned...’
Then, Jesus Christ by an act of His justice and His great mercy for the righteous, will command His Angels to put all His enemies to death. Suddenly, all the persecutors of the Church of Jesus Christ and all men given to sin will perish, and the earth will become like a desert. Then there will be peace, reconciliation between God and men. Jesus Christ will be served, adored and glorified. Charity will blossom everywhere.
The new kings will be the right arm of the Holy Church, which will be strong, humble, pious, poor, zealous, imitating the virtues of Jesus Christ. The Gospel will be preached everywhere, and mankind will make great progress in the faith, because there will be unity among the workers of Jesus Christ, and men will live in the fear of God.
21. This peace among men will not last long. Twenty-five years of abundant harvests will make them forget that the sins of men are the cause of all the pains that come upon the earth.
22. A forerunner of the Antichrist, with his troops of several nations will fight against the true Christ, the only Savior of the world. He will shed much blood and will want to annihilate the worship of God in order to have himself considered as god. The earth will be stricken with all sorts of plagues (besides pestilence and famine which will be widespread). There will be wars, until the last war, led by the ten kings of the Antichrist, who all aim at the same goal and who will be the only ones ruling the world. Before this happens, there will be a kind of false peace in the world.
‘Thought will be given only to entertainment. The wicked will indulge in all sorts of sins’
24. Nature demands vengeance for men, and it trembles with terror in anticipation of what will happen to the earth soiled with crimes.
25. Tremble, earth! And you, who profess to serve Jesus Christ but, in your hearts only worship yourselves, tremble; since God will hand you over to His enemy, because the holy places are places of corruption. Many convents are no longer houses of God but pastures for Asmodeus [the devil of impurity] and his own.
The children never wavered or changed in their account of the Secret as they gradually revealed them
27. The seasons will be changed. The earth will produce only bad fruit. The stars will lose their regular movement. The moon will reflect only a faint reddish light. Water and fire will give to the globe of the earth convulsive movements and horrible earthquakes, which engulf mountains, cities, et cetera... [Melanie’s ellipses]
28. Rome will lose the Faith and become the seat of the Antichrist.
29. The demons of the air, together with the Antichrist, will perform great prodigies on the earth and in the air, and men will become more and more perverted. God will take care of His faithful servants and men of good will. The Gospel will be preached everywhere. All the peoples and all the nations will have knowledge of the truth!
30. I address an urgent call to the earth;
- I call the true disciples of the living God who reigns in Heaven;
- I call the true imitators of Christ made Man, the only and true Savior of men;
- I call my children, my true devotees, those who have offered themselves to me so that I may lead them to my Divine Son, those whom I carry in my arms, so to speak, those who have lived by my spirit;
- Finally, I call the Apostles of the Last Times, the faithful disciples of Jesus Christ, who have lived in contempt for the world and of themselves, in poverty and humility, in contempt and in silence, in prayer and in mortification, in chastity and in union with God, in suffering and unknown to the world.
It is time that they come forth and enlighten the earth. Go, and show yourselves as my beloved children. I am with you and in you, provided that the Faith be the light which enlightens you in these days of woe. Let your zeal make you as if starved for the glory and honor of Jesus Christ. Fight, children of the light, you few who see; for behold the time of times, the end of ends!
Our Lady was surrounded by light, which the children entered
Who can overcome if God does not shorten the time of trial? By the blood, tears and prayers of the righteous, God will permit Himself to be moved. Enoch and Elias will be put to death. Pagan Rome will disappear. The fire of heaven will fall and consume three cities. The whole universe will be struck with terror, and many will be led astray because they had not adored the true Christ, living among them. It is the time when the sun will darken. Faith alone will live.
33. Behold the time. The abyss opens up. Behold the king of the kings of darkness, behold the Beast with its subjects, calling itself the savior of the world. He will rise with pride into the air in order to attain heaven. He will be suffocated by the breath of Saint Michael the Archangel. He will fall, and the earth, which for three days had been in continuous convulsions, will open its bosom full of fire. He will be plunged forever, with his subjects, into the eternal chasms of Hell. Then water and fire will purify the earth and consume all the works of men’s pride, and all will be renewed: God will be served and glorified!
To be continued
- Laurentin & Corteville, The Discovery of the Secret of LaSalette, Versions and Sources, p. 60.
- Ibid., Chapter 4, "The Eight Preserved Versions of the Secret,” pp 83-92.
Posted September 29, 2025
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