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You will never feed on earth.

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Alexandrina Maria da Costa lived, from March 27, 1942, more than thirteen years in fasting and anuria

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the news spreads

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

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Summary of his autobiography

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«At half past two in the afternoon five men entered the room, I immediately had the feeling that one of them was a doctor; they began to interrogate me

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I answered firmly because the truth has only one path; When questioning me about food (Oh, what injuries, if only nobody knew!), they asked me: «But is it true that you don’t eat anything? Any!»

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I answered firmly because the truth has only one path; When questioning me about food (Oh, what injuries, if only nobody knew!), they asked me: «But is it true that you don’t eat anything? Any!»

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«And why don’t you eat?»

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-I don’t eat, because I can’t, it fills me up, I don’t need to eat, but I feel nostalgic for food

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The 10th of July arrived, when everything was ready for my departure to Foz

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All the vigilant ladies carried out the doctor’s orders well, because they did not leave me for a moment, the door of my room only opened to give way to the doctors and nurses. The new transformation that took place in me, neither the doctor nor the nurses wanted to convince themselves that it was possible for me to live without food

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In the conversations and interrogations that he made me several times, the doctor used all possible means to convince me to feed myself and make me feel that I should not do so, because God did not like it; even out of scruples she wanted to take me, the nurse tempted me many times by the side of the heart.

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My mother came to visit me on the 16th day and on the 30th day, she missed her so much!

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Doubts of a doctor

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One of the guards reported the case to a new doctor, who, not knowing the case, raised new doubts. That doctor thought that the guards were being fooled and said that he would only prove it by sending nurses he trusted.

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Dr. Araújo, indignant at not accrediting the rigor of the observation made by him, demanded that he then send a person he trusted and sent his sister. When we thought we would see our pain softened, we were asked for a new test, more painful and sad, Dr. Araújo tried to convince us that it was convenient to spend ten more days

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The doctor’s story

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The scientific rigor with which the Alejandrina fast was examined, for forty days and forty nights, is recorded in the account presented by Dr. Gomes de Araújo, from the Royal Academy of Medicine of Madrid, a specialist in nervous and arthritic ailments, under the Title: «A Remarkable Case of Abstinence and Anuria»

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There we read these decisive words: «It is entirely true for us that, during the forty days of hospitalization, this patient did not eat or drink, did not urinate or defecate, and this circumstance leads us to believe that such phenomena come from earlier times, we cannot doubt it. Thirteen years ago, as we are informed? We do not know.»

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

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

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We also testify that having been interned from June 10 to July 20, 1943, in the Infantile Paralysis Shelter, which is in Foz do Douro, under the direction of Dr. Gomes de Araújo and under surveillance during the day and at night by reliable people willing to investigate the truth, it was verified that his abstinence from solids and liquids was absolute during his internment, conserving his weight, temperature, respiration, tension, pulse, blood and mental faculties sensibly normal, constant and lucid and not having during those forty days, no evacuation of feces nor a minimum excretion of urine.

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The blood test collected three weeks after hospitalization was tested and appears normal, so science cannot explain it, considering the truths of physiology and biochemistry, the survival of this patient cannot be explained due to abstinence absolute, during  the forty days of internment, it should be noted that the patient, during that time, answered many questions daily and had many conversations, showing the best disposition and the best lucidity of spirit. Regarding the phenomena observed on Fridays at 5:00 p.m.,