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opinions of earlier writers on Origen and his works, and states his reasons for making a new edition. The first volume contains the letters of Origen (mostly in fragments), the four books '* De principus " on prayer, an exhortation to mart^rrdom, and the eight hooks against Celsua. To this is added '*De recta in Deum fide contra Marcionem ", which had been published in 1674 under the name of Origen. Larue proves that this book and the books "Contra haereses are falsely ascribed to Origen. To each book Larue adds copious explanatory notes. In the preface to the secona vol- ume is given an outline of the method followed by Origen in explaining the Holy Scriptures; then follow the commentaries on the Pentateuch, Josue, Judges, Ruth, Kin^s, Job, and the Psalter. Larue had gath- ered material for two other volumes, but a stroke of paralysis put an end to his labours. They were editea by his nephew Vincent de Larue, a member of the same congregation.

Tabbis, Oelehrlengesch. der Congr. von St. Maw, II (Ixiipzig, 1874), 271 ; Lama, Bibl. des fcrivains de la Congr. dr. St. Maur, no. 451; ILlulbn in Kirchenlex.^ s.v.; Hdrter, Nomendator.

Francis Meilshman.

La Rue, Charles de, one of the great orators of the Society of Jesus in France in the seventeenth cen- tury, b. at Paris, 3 August, 1643; d. there, 27 May, 1725. He entered the novitiate on 7 September, 1659, and being afterwards professor of the human- ities and rhetoric, he attracted attention while stil> young by a poem on the victories of Louis XIV. Cor- neille translated it and offered it to the king, saying that his work did not equal the original of the young Jesuit. He wrote several tragedies, brought out an edition • of Virgil, and wrote several Latin poems. After having several times refused to permit him to go to Canada, his superiors assigned him to preaching; as an orator he was much admired by the court and the king. His funeral orations on the Dukes of Bur- gundy and Luxemburg, and that on Bossuet, his ser- nions on " Les Calami^ publiques" and "The Dying Sinner'* have been regarded as masterpieces by the greatest masters. He preached missions among the Protestants of Lan^uedoc for three years. He was a most virtuous religious, and during his last years en- dured courageously great infirmities.

P. Veroilii Maronis opera, interpretation r et notia illustravit Carolua Ruaua Soc. Jesu, jussu Christianissimi Regis, ad usum Serenisnmi Delphini (Paris, 1675), frequently reprinted in Fnmce, England, Italy, Germany (latest Paris. 1864. 3 vols.). All the oratorical works in Miqne. Coll. irUajmle et univ. dc* Orateurn aaeria (1844-66), XXVIII. col. 199-1570; XXXIII. 1120-1214; Qtuirenmale del P. Carlo Delia Rue (Milan. 1858); Confererue tenrde neW avento (Milan, 1853); Nettemknt. Oraiaont Fttnkbrea de Boaatiett Bourdaloue,' de La Hue (Paris. 1842) ; Eloge duP, de La Rue in Mercure de Prance, June, 1725, 1324-1332; Feller, Did. hiai., V (1839), 350; Sommervogel, Bibl. de la Compagnie de JUua, VII, col. 290-307, contains a oomplete Ust of bis works.

Abel Champon.

La Salette, in the commune and parish of La Sa- lette-Fallavaux, Canton of Corps, Department of Isdre, and Diocese of Grenoble. It is celebrated as the place where, it is said, the Blessed Virgin ap- peared to two little shepherds; and each year is visited Dv a large number of pilgrims. On 19 Sept., 1846, about three o'clock in the afternoon in full sunlight, on a mountain about 5918 feet high and about three miles distant from the village of La Salette-Fallavaux, it is related that two children, a shepherdess of fifteen named M^lanie Calvat, called Mathieu, and a shep- herd-boy of eleven named Maximin Giraud, both of t hem very ignorant, beheld in a resplendent light a • l>eautif ul lady " clad in a strange costume. Speaking r'tornately in French and in patois, she charged them with A message which they were "to deliver to all her f^pople". After complaining of the impiety of Chris- tians, and threatening them with dreadful chastise- meiit<5 in case they should i>ersevere in evil, she prom- ised them the Divine mercy if they would amend.

Finally, it is alleeed, before disappearing she com- municated to each of the children a special secret. The sensation caused by the recital of M^lanie and Maximin was profound, and gave rise to several in- vestigations and reports. Mgr Philibert de Bruillard, Bishop of (jrenoblc, appointed a commission to ex- amine judicially this marvellous event; the commis- sion concluded that the reality of the apparition should be admitted. Soon several miraculous cures took place on the mountain of La Salette, and pil- grimages to the place were begun. The miracle, need- less to say, was ridiculed by free-thinkers, but it was also questioned among the faithful, and especially by ecclesiastics. There arose against it in the Dioceses of Grenoble and Lyons a violent opposition, aggra- vated by what is known as the incident of Ars. As a result of this hostility and the consequent agitation, Mgr de Bruillard (16 November, 1851) declared the apparition of the Blessed Virgin as certain, and au- thorized the cult of Our Lady of La Salette. This act subdued, but did not suppress, the opposition, whose leaders, profiting by the succession in 1852 of a new bishop, Mgr Ginoulhiac, to Mgr Bruillard, who had resigned, retaliated with violent attacks on the re-ality of the miracle of La Salette. They even asserted that the" beautiful lady " was a young woman named Lam- erlidre, which story gave rise to a widely advertised suit for slander. Despite these hostile act^, the first stone of a great church was solemnly laid on the mount of La Salette, 25 May, 1852^ amid a large assembly of the faithful. This church, later elevated to the rank of a basilica, was served by a body of religious called Missionaries of La Salette (q. v.). Since 1891 dio- cesan priests have replaced these missionaries, driven into exile by persecuting laws.

As said above, the Blessed Virgin confided to each of the two children a special secret. These two se- crets, which neither Mmnie or Maximin ever made known to each other, were sent by them in 1851 to Pius IX on the advice of Mgr de Bruillard. It is un- known what impression the.se mysterious revelations made on the pope, for on this point there are two ver- sions diametrically opposed to each other. Maximin 's secret is not known, for it was never published. M4Ian- ie's was inserted in its entirety in a brochure which she herself had printed in 1879 at Lecce, Italy, with the approval of the bishop of that town. A Hvely contro- versy followed as to whether the secret published in 1879 was identical with that communicated to Pius IX in 1851, or whether in its second form it was not merely a work of the imagination. The latter was the opinion of wise and prudent persons, who were per- suaded that a distinction must be made between the two M^lanies, between the innocent and simple voy- ante of 1846 and the visionary of 1879, whose mind had been disturbed by reading apocalyptic books and the lives of iUumiiiati. As Rome uttered no decision the strife was prolonged between the disputants. Most of the defenders of the text of 1879 suffered censure from their bishops. Maximin Giraud, after an un- happy and wandering life, returned to Corps, his native village, and died there a holy death (1 March, 1875). M^lanie Calvat ended a no less wandering life at Altamura, Italy (15 Dec, 1904).

Bex (Canon). Pllerinage h la Salette, ou examm erUique de Vapparition de la aainte Vietge h deux bergers (L\'ons, 1847); RoussELOT, La vMtr aur I'ev/nemenl de La Salette du 19-aeptem' bre 1846, ou Rapport a Mgr Vt'^taue de Grenoble aur Vapparition de la aainte Vierge a deux petita hergera aur la montagne de La Salette (Grenoble, 1848); Idem, Nouveaux documenta aur Vfoene- ment de La Salette (Grenoble, 1850); Bez (AaBfe), M. Vianneu, curi d'Ara, et Maximin Giraud, berger de La Salette, ou la vhil^ H'cuperant aea droita (Paris and Lyons, 1851); Rou»- 8BLOT, D6fenae de Viv/ncment de Iai Salette contre de nouvellea attaquea (Grenoble, 1851): Idem, Vn novveau mnctuaire b Marie ou condition de V affaire de La Salette (Grenoble, 1853) : Nicolas, La Salette devant la raiaon (Pariii. 1855) ; Giraud. Ma profeaaion de foi aur Vapparition de Notre Damede Jm Salette (Paris. 1866); Calyat, Vapparition de la trH aainte Vierge aur la montagne de La SaleUe le 19 aeptembre 1846 (Lecce, 1879), a pamphlet several timet reprinted in France; Bsrtrand, La Saldte, docu-