Blessed Alexandrina Maria da Costa
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- Memorial
- 13 October
- Profile
- Lay woman from the diocese of Braga.
At age 14 Alexandrina jumped from a window to escape a rapist; she was injured in the fall, paralyzed, and was bed-ridden for the rest of her life.
Member of the Salesian Cooperators.
Mystic and visionary.
The last 13 years of her life she had the gift of inedia, living solely off daily Communion.
- Born
- 30 March 1904 at Balasar, Oporto, Portugal
- Died
- 13 October 1955 at Balasar, Oporto, Portugal
- Venerated
- 12 January 1996 by Pope John Paul II
- Beatified
- 25 April 2004 by Pope John Paul II
- Canonized
- Paróquia de Sta. Eulalia, Rua Alexandrina Maria da Costa, 21, 4570-017 Balasar PVZ, PORTUGAL;
Padres Salesianos, rua Saraiva de Carvalho 275, 1399-020 Lisboa, PORTUGAL
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