ALEXANDRINA, TEACH ME!

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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