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Alexandrina Maria da Costa.absolute fast, 25.10.21

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1. Alexandrina Maria da Costa

The doctor’s story

On that Good Friday, March 27, 1942, Alejandrina began her absolute fast, Holy Communion will be, for more than 13 years, until her death her only food

The scientific rigor with which the fast of Alejandrina was examined, for forty days and forty nights, is stated in the report presented by Dr. Gomes de Araújo, of the Royal Academy of Medicine of Madrid, specialist in nervous and arthritic ailments, under the title: «A remarkable case of abstinence and anuria»

The news spreads

The weeks passed, and the intimate people, seeing her return to her activities, without the help of any food or drink, as if she were a spirit without bodily needs, were amazed, filled with questions and assumptions, had tried to hide the extraordinary phenomenon, but it had spread through the family news, which was transmitted confidentially to those who were informed about the patient, so esteemed by all

«At two thirty in the afternoon five men entered the room, I immediately had the presentiment that one of them was a doctor; they began to question me, I don’t know why, my gaze was fixed mainly on one of them, only when they left I knew it was the doctor; I responded to everything, I don’t lack serenity, Jesus knows how much these things cost me, that they will end perhaps until my death.

   I answered firmly because the truth has only one way; When they asked me about eating (Oh what wounds, if only no one knew!), they asked me: «But is it true that he does not eat anything? Nothing!» I did not know if the visitors were believers, practitioners or not, but I replied anyway: «I receive Communion every day!» They were silent for a few moments without a gesture, without a smile, shortly after they withdrew delicate and respectful

And Dr. Araújo ends by affirming that in this strange case, there are details of «that his fundamental abstinence is of a biological order, so much duration of abstinence of liquid and anuria leaves us suspended, waiting for some explanation to come true light.»

The certificate signed by Dr. Dias de Azevedo and Dr. Carlos Alberto de Lima says:

The undersigned, Dr. De Lima and Dr. Dias de Azevedo, we certify that, having examined Alejandrina María da Costa, 38 years old, natural and resident in the parish of Balasar, we certify that she is a carrier of a compression condition spinal cord that is the cause of his paraplegia.

We also testify that having been hospitalized from June 10 to July 20, 1943, in the Infant Paralysis Refuge, which is in Foz do Douro, under the direction of Dr. Gomes de Araújo and under daytime surveillance and at night by trustworthy people eager to investigate the truth, it was found that his abstinence from solids and liquids was absolute during his hospitalization, keeping his weight, temperature, respiration, tensions, pulse, blood and sensibly normal, constant and lucid mental faculties and there being during those forty days, no stool evacuation nor a minimum urine excretion.

The blood test collected three weeks after her hospitalization, was tested and looks normal, so science cannot explain it, considering the truths of physiology and biochemistry, the survival of this patient is not explained due to abstinence. absolute, during the forty days of the internment, it should be noted that the patient, during that time, answered many questions daily and held many conversations, showing the best disposition and the best lucidity of spirit. As for the phenomena observed on Fridays at 5:00 p.m., we understand that they belong to the Mystic, which will be the one that pronounces on said phenomena. Physicians’ signatures