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.«You will never be fed on earth.»
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Alexandrina María da Costa lived, since March 27, 1942, for more than thirteen years in fasting and anuria
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The news spreads
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The weeks passed, and the people close to her, 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 sick woman, so esteemed by all.
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Summary of his autobiography
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«At two thirty 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 responded firmly because the truth has only one path; When they asked me about my diet (Oh, what wounds, if only no one knew!), they asked me: «But is it true that he doesn’t eat anything? Nothing!»
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I responded firmly because the truth has only one path; When they asked me about my diet (Oh, what wounds, if only no one knew!), they asked me: «But is it true that he doesn’t eat anything? Nothing!»
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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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uly 10 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 to my room was only opened to let in the doctors and nurses. The new transformation that occurred 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 carried out with me several times, the doctor used all possible means to convince me to feed myself and make me feel that I should not do it that way, because God did not like it; Even out of scruples he wanted to take me, the nurse tempted me many times on the side of the heart.
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My mother came to visit me on the 16th day and the 30th day, she missed her so much!
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A doctor’s doubts
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One of the guards reported the case to a new doctor, who, not knowing about the case, raised new doubts. That doctor thought that the guards were letting themselves be fooled and said that he would only accredit them 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 a person he trusted be sent and he sent his sister. When we thought we would see our pain alleviated, we were asked for a new test, more painful and sad, Dr. Araújo tried to convince us that it was advisable to spend ten more days
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The doctor’s story
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The scientific rigor with which Alexandrina’s fast was examined, for forty days and forty nights,

It appears in the story presented by Dr. Gomes de Araújo, from the Royal Academy of Medicine of Madrid, specialist in nervous and arthritic ailments, under the title: «A notable case of withdrawal and anuria»
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There we read these decisive words: «It is entirely true for us that, during the forty days of confinement, 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 they inform us? We don’t know.»
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And Dr. Araújo ends by stating that in this strange case, there are details of «that her fundamental abstinence is of a biological order, such a duration of liquid abstinence and anuria leaves us in suspense, waiting for some explanation to shed true 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 hospitalized 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 eager to investigate the truth, it was verified that his abstinence from solids and liquids was absolute during his confinement, preserving his weight, temperature, respirations, tensions, pulse, blood and mental faculties sensibly normal, constant and lucid. and during those forty days there was no evacuation of feces nor a minimum excretion of urine.
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The blood test collected three weeks after her 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 this abstinence. absolute, during the forty days of confinement, 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 p.m.,
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