Alexandrina Maria Da Costa (1904-1955)
ALESSANDRINA MARIA DA COSTA nacque a Balasar, in provincia di Oporto e Arcidiocesi di Braga il 30 marzo 1904, e fu battezzata il 2 aprile seguente, sabato santo. Venne educata cristianamente dalla mamma, insieme alla sorella Deolinda. Alessandrina rimase in famiglia fino a sette anni, then was sent in Povoa do Varzim retired from the family of a carpenter, in order to attend elementary school in Balasar missing. Here she made her first communion in 1911, and the following year he received the sacrament of Confirmation by the Bishop of Oporto. After eighteen months he returned to Balasar and went to live with his mother and sister in the area of \u200b\u200b"Calvary", where he remained until his death. began working in the fields, having a strong constitution: he held before men and what they earn. His childhood was a very lively: with a happy temperament and communicative, she was much loved by her companions. At twelve years, however, became ill: a severe infection (possibly intestinal typhoid fever) led her to the brink of death. Overcome the danger, but the physical will remain forever marked by this episode. was at the age of fourteen who was a decisive event in his life. It was Holy Saturday 1918. That day her sister Deolinda apprentice and a girl were busy in their work, sewing, when they realized that three men tried to enter the room. Although the doors were closed, the three succeeded in forcing the door and entered. Alexandrina, to save her purity threatened, did not hesitate to throw out the window, from a height of four meters. The consequences were terrible, but not immediate. In fact, various medical examinations to which she was subjected subsequently diagnosed with increasing clarity an irreversible fact. Up to nineteen years he could be dragged to church, where all numb, halting, with great astonishment of the people. Then came the paralysis progressing more and more until the pain became horrible, these joints lost their movements and it remained completely paralyzed. It was 14 April 1925 when Alexandria went to bed never to rise more for the remaining thirty years of his life. Until 1928 it did not stop to ask the Lord through the intercession of Mary, the grace of healing, promising that if she was cured, would go missionary. But as soon as he realized that suffering was her vocation, embraced with alacrity. He said: "Our Lady showed me a favor even more. Before the resignation, then full compliance with the will of God, and finally the desire to suffer. " date from this period the first mystical phenomena when Alexandrina began a life of greater union with Jesus in the Tabernacle, through Mary. One day when she found herself alone, she was suddenly this thought: "Jesus, you are a prisoner in the tabernacle and I in my bed by your will. We'll have company. " Since then began the first mission: to be like the lamp of the tabernacle. He spent his nights as a pilgrim of the Tabernacle in Tabernacle. In every Mass is offered to the Eternal Father as a victim for sinners, together with Jesus and according to your intentions. she grew more and more in love with suffering, as and that the vocation of the victim was heard more clearly. She took a vow to always do what was most perfect. Since Friday, October 3, 1938 to March 24, 1942, ie 182 times, he lived every Friday the sufferings of the Passion. Alexandrina, overcoming the usual state of paralysis, fell out of bed and with movements and gestures accompanied by agonizing pain, reproduced the different times of the Via Crucis for three and a half hours. "To love, suffer, fix" the program that was pointed to the Lord. Since 1934 - at the invitation of the Jesuit Father Mariano Pinho, who directed her in spirit until 1941 - Alexandria to write down what Jesus said to her from time to time In 1936, the order of Jesus, she asked the Holy Father, through the Pinho father, the consecration of the world to the Immaculate Heart of Mary. This appeal was renewed several times until 1941, when the Holy See asked three times about the Archbishop of Braga Alexandrina. On October 31, 1942 Pope Pius XII consecrated the world to the Immaculate Heart of Mary with a message sent to Fatima in the Portuguese language. This act is renewed in Rome in St. Peter's Basilica on December 8 of that year. Since March 27, 1942 in Alexandria and then ceased to feed, living only on the Eucharist. In 1943, for forty days and forty nights were closely supervised by skilled medical fasting absolute and anuria, the hospital of the mouth of the Douro at Oporto. In 1944, the new spiritual director, the Salesian Fr Umberto Pasquale, encouraged Alexandrina, why continue to dictate his diary, after finding the spiritual heights to which it was received, what it did with the spirit of obedience unto death. That same year, 1944 Alexandria he joined the Union of Salesian Cooperators. He wanted to put her degree of cooperation "in a place that you can have under your eyes," to collaborate with his pain and his prayers for the salvation of souls, especially youth. He prayed and suffered for the sanctification of co-operatives throughout the world. Despite her sufferings, she also continued to take an interest and strive for the poor, for the spiritual welfare of parishioners and many others who turn to her. Promoted triduums, Forty and Lent in the parish. Especially in recent years, many people flocked to her from a distance, attracted by the fame of holiness; e parecchie attribuivano ai suoi consigli la loro conversione. Nel 1950 Alessandrina festeggia il XXV della sua immobilità. Il 7 gennaio 1955 le viene preannunciato che quello sarebbe stato l’anno della sua morte. Il 12 ottobre volle ricevere l’unzione degli infermi. Il 13 ottobre, anniversario dell’ultima apparizione della Madonna a Fatima, la si sentì esclamare: “Sono felice, perché vado in cielo”. Alle 19,30 spirò. Nel 1978 le sue spoglie vennero traslate dal cimitero di Balasar alla chiesa parrocchiale, dove oggi, in un cappella laterale, riposa il corpo di Alessandrina. Sulla sua tomba si leggono queste parole da lei volute: “Peccatori, if the ashes of my body can help to save you, approach, pass over, calpestatele until they disappear. But sin no more, not offend our Jesus!. It 's the summary of his life spent solely to save souls. " In Oporto on the afternoon of October 15 florists were no white roses: all sold. A floral tribute to Alexandria, which had been the white rose of Jesus
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