SHORT BIOGRAPHY
Alexandrina was born
in the poverty, but she was rich in health, joyful, generous and loving. She
grew in an atmosphere in which both
Eucharistic
and Marian principles were lived to the full.
At 14 years of age,
to protect her purity from the advances of three
ill-intentioned men,
she jumped from a window into the kitchen-garden. After that a gradual
paralysis, which was to confine her to her bed for the next 30 years of life,
took over.
In this retirement and solitude where she learned to understand, little by
little, the love of Jesus and, with His aid, the value of suffering as means to
continue the work of redemption, she offered herself as victim.
That “jump” marked
the beginning of a spiritual journey that reached the heights of great sanctity.
Among the more
notables mystical gifts were: the reliving, in her body, heart and spirit, the
Passion; surviving for more than 13 years solely on the consecrated Host and
transfusions of Jesus’ Blood administered by Himself; an extraordinary and
effective public evangelization with numerous conversions.
Obliged by her
spiritual directors to dictate all the movements of her soul, she left
“documents concerning her interior life which are of an authentic literary,
ascetic and theological value that it would not be easy to equal”, writes her
director Fr Pinho.
Summarizing her
spiritual stature Alexandrina can be described as:
- a messenger of
Jesus for sinners and for the consecration of the world to the Immaculate Heart
of Mary
- one of the victim
souls for the redemption
- an admirable
example of the work of Jesus in a soul that loves Him passionately, unreservedly
- a masterpiece of
the great work that Jesus can achieve in littleness
- a soul so
impassioned with love for Jesus that a mystical identification is reached with
her Beloved
- a soul that
accepted all forms of martyrdom to save souls
- a reflection of
incarnate Love.
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