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Alexandrina Maria da Costa, her absolute fasting,

The doctor’s story

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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 Alejandrina’s fasting was examined, for forty days and forty nights, is stated in the report 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 withdrawal 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, they had tried to hide the extraordinary phenomenon, but it had spread through family news, which was transmitted confidentially to those who were informed about the patient, so esteemed by all

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

I responded firmly because the truth has only one path; When questioning me about eating (Oh what wounds, if only nobody knew!), they asked me: «But is it true that you don’t eat anything? Nothing!» I didn’t know if the visitors were believers, practitioners or not, but I answered anyway: «I receive Communion every day!» They remained silent for a few moments without a gesture, without a smile, shortly after they withdrew delicate and respectful.

And Dr. Araújo ends by stating that in this strange case, there are details of «that his fundamental abstinence is of a biological order, such a duration of fluid withdrawal and anuria leaves us in suspense, waiting for some explanation to shed light».

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

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

We also attest that having been hospitalized from June 10 to July 20, 1943, in the Refuge for Infant Paralysis, 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 eager to investigate the truth, it was verified that his abstinence from solids and liquids was absolute during his hospitalization, keeping his weight, temperature, respirations, blood pressure, pulse, blood and mental faculties noticeably normal, constant and lucid. and not having during those forty days, no evacuation of feces or a minimum excretion of urine.

The blood test collected three weeks after her hospitalization was tested and it looks normal, so science cannot explain it. Considering the truths of physiology and biochemistry, the survival of this patient cannot be explained due to this withdrawal. absolute, during the forty days of hospitalization, it should be noted that the patient, during that time, answered many questions daily and held many conversations, manifesting the best disposition and the best lucidity of spirit. Regarding the phenomena observed on Fridays at 5:00 p.m., we understand that they belong to Mysticism, which will be the one that pronounces on these phenomena. Physician signatures.