Blessed Alexandrina Maria da Costa ate only the Eucharist and suffered the Passion of Christ 182 times
When we think that we have made a post disclosing one of Jesus' greatest or surprising miracles, we soon come to another action that is even more miraculous of God, always proving that He has no limits. This is the case that we will report today regarding the life of Blessed Alexandrina.
Born in 1904, the daughter of peasant parents who gave her a good Christian formation, she had cultivated her love for the Eucharist from a very young age, often communing and companioning God in the tabernator with assiduousity.
At the age of twelve a peasant tried to force him to take his virginity, but at that moment she held the rosary in her hands, which gave her a supernatural force to escape the marginal. But two years later he went back after the already young Alexandrina, accompanied by two other compars, to try again to sexually abuse him. They tried to break into the place where she was with two other friends. Upon seeing the former depraved, she ran to close the door but could not stop them in time. Her two colleagues managed to escape, but she found herself trapped in a corner, with no way out.
She held the rosary back in his hands at that terrible moment and said, "Jesus, help me." That's when he noticed a nearby window and didn't think twice.... She threw himself by her falling from a height of four meters. The fall was strong, leaving her paraplegic at the beginning of his youth.
At that time the apparitions of Our Lady of Fatima were taking place, asking the little shepherds for reparations for the sins of humanity. Knowing this will of the Mother did not hesitate to accept and offer all her suffering as reparation to the offenses that the Immaculate Hearts of Jesus and Mary suffered, enabling many souls not to go to hell.
She suffered the Passion of Christ
The year 1931, Alexandrina began to receive mystical gifts and encounters with Our Lord, who asked her: "Help me in the redemption of the human race", inviting her to participate in His Passion.
That's when she first participated in the Passion of Christ in 1938. By that time she was already totally out of movement in her bed. But as she began at noon the painful pathway, she entered into ecstasy and immediately regained her movements, retusing all christ's movements from the garden of the olive trees to the ordeal. Her confessor and family saw everything with great amazement and anguish, for her expressions represented all the dread and suffering of those moments. Her movements only ceased at three in the afternoon, at the time of Jesus' death. Then she returned to the state of immobility in his bed.
Looking like she had already accepted and endured the unbearable to help God in our salvation, did not stop no.... And here comes what we said at the beginning of the unbelievable that God and His followers can do for the love of others. She went on to suffer the Passion every Friday, from noon to three, always miraculously recovering her movements during those three hours and returning to the state of paralysis afterwards. Until 1942!!!! Therefore, she SUFFERED 182 TIMES THE PASSION OF CHRIST!!! Although it is incomprehensible to the human mind to understand how it suffered in the body and mind the ordeal, we know in compensation that for God nothing is impossible. Numerous written records were made, in photos and filming of these mystical events, which were later essential for their beatification. See below some recorded moments of one of the moments when he miraculously gets up from bed and begins the movements of the crucifixion (attention, sensitive images for some):
The only food: the Eucharist
And if you thought she'd done the impossible over a hundred times, you wouldn't stop there! In the same year of 1942, in one of his encounters with Jesus, He communicated to her:
"The so you will not eat any more food from the earth. Your food will be my flesh and your drink my blood. Your life will be my life".... "I have placed you in the world so that you may live only from me, to witness to the value of the Eucharist." From this day on she did not make any more meals and only received the Eucharist as food, for 13 years!!! ! She became the Atoll of the Eucharist.
For these miracles and several others of her holy life, Alexandrina was beatified by John Paul II in 2004.
Referências: PADRE ALEXANDRE FERNANDES, MATRIZ DE NOSSA SENHORA DA GLÓRIA, SANTUARIO ALEXANDRINA DE BALAZAR, CANÇÃO NOVA, NOS PASSOS DE MARIA, UCDB