An all but unknown 19th-century mystic received dramatic revelations that were stunningly similar to those at the famous apparition in LaSalette, France, but with this twist: her messages came before (as well as during and after) those far better known messages.
The locutions in question -- to an obscure Discalced Carmelite in the French city of Tours named Sister Mary of St. Peter -- were recorded from 1843 to 1847 and -- like LaSalette (exactly) -- focused on the sins of dishonoring the Sabbath and using the Lord's Name in vain.
It was on September 19, 1846, that two children, Mélanie Calvat and Maximim Giraud, tending a cow near the top of a mountain in the French Alps, near Corps, encountered the Blessed Mother. Mary appeared in a globe of light and sat on a rock with her face in her palms, weeping over the sins of mankind.
"I gave you six days to work," the Blessed Mother said, in that Church-approved apparition. "I kept the seventh day for myself, and no one wishes to grant it to me. This is what weighs down the arm of my Son so much. Those who drive carts cannot speak without putting the Name of my Son in the middle."
As a result -- because of this use of Jesus' Name as a swear word, she warned -- the potato crop would be ruined and there would be disease as well as famine.
Precisely this occurred beginning later that very same year as an historic failure of potatoes caused more than a million deaths in northern France and across the English Channel in Ireland (where it was known as the Great Potato Famine).
Read more here: http://spiritdaily.com/sistermary.htm
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