The Missionaries of La Salette:
(M.S. - Missio Saletyni) missionary order of priests, nuns and lay fraternities named for the La Salette apparition, whose stated goal is healing, reconciliation, and the upholding of human dignity and integrity. Members of this mixed clergy are known as Saletinians.

Where?
Worldwide, the order numbers over one thousand members located in North and South America, Europe, Asia and Africa. In North America the order's members work in more than a dozen U.S. states and the provinces of Quebec and Ontario in Canada. The order helps maintain religious shrines, such as the national shrine of Our Lady of La Salette in Attleboro, Massachusetts, and works in various Catholic parishes, such as Mother of Mercy parish in Washington, North Carolina The Attleboro shrine is particularly well known for its "Festival of Lights" around the Christmas season.

In Latin America, Africa and Asia, the order does missionary work in a number of countries, including Angola, Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, India, Madagascar, Myanmar and the Philippines. The distinctive cross of the order depicts a hammer and pincers. Traditionally ascribed to the Virgin Mary at her apparition at La Salette, France in 1846, these symbols represent the order's goal of healing and reconciliation. The order continues to care for pilgrims at shrines and to work at retreat houses, home and foreign missions, parishes, youth ministries, and in counseling and teaching, and as hospital and armed services chaplains.

La Salette web site

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