Alexandrina Maria da Costa

Alexandrina Maria da Costa , also known as Blessed Alexandrina of Balazar, was a Portuguese mystic and victim soul, member of the Association of Salesian Cooperators, who was born and died in Balazar . Alexandrina left many written works, which have been studied mainly in Italy by Father Umberto Pasquale. OnApril 2004 she was declared blessed by Pope John Paul II who stated that her secret to holiness was love for Christ.

Alexandrina Maria da Costa was born atMarch 1904, in Balazar, a rural parish of Pvoa de Varzim, Portugal. Her father abandoned the family when she was very young. She had only eighteen months schooling before being sent to work on a farm at the age of nine. In her teens she started to work in Balazar as a seamstress along with her sister.

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