The Birth
The parents of Blessed Alexandrina Maria da
Costa were Maria Ana da Costa and António Xavier. They were neighbours, but
unmarried. António Xavier was an emigrant in Brazil. Once he came back to
Balasar and Deolinda was conceived; later he went again to Brazil. In a second
coming, was conceived Alexandrina.
But even before her birth the unworthy father
António married a girl from Póvoa de Varzim.
Faced with this situation, the young mother saw
herself as a widow and started caring only for the maintenance and education of
her daughters.
She became an active, exemplary and prayerful
woman.
She suffered much, but Jesus promised
Alexandrina he would take her mother to Heaven without her having to pass
through Purgatory.
The arrow
indicates the house where Alexandrina was born at Gresufes.
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