October 13: BL. ALEXANDRINA MARIA DA COSTA: I Want to Suffer with Love

Blessed Alexandrina Maria da Costa was paralyzed at fourteen — and spent the next thirty years turning her suffering into prayer.

After a fall left her body broken and unable to walk, Alexandrina refused to let her pain go to waste, offering every ache as prayer for souls far from God. For the last thirteen years of her life she lived on nothing but the Eucharist, sustained by Jesus alone even as doctors confirmed she took no food or water at all.

"I die happy."

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