NEWS

A Photobiography was put in the English page of the official website: http://alexandrinabalasar.free.fr/fotobiografia_eng.htm.
The statistics of November went out yesterday: it was an extraordinary month, with the visits to be brought near to 9.000, coming from 83 countries!
Some texts translated into Telugu were promised to us; Telugu is the language of the Indian state of Andhra Pradesh and is the third one more spoken in India.
We are told that last number of the Bld Alexandrian Society newsletter brings some information on the book To the Ends of the Earth.

NEWS IN THE BLD ALEXANDRINA’S WEBSITE

Alponse Rocha has reorganized some pages of the Alexandrina’s website. The main changes are in the Homepage (http://alexandrinabalasar.free.fr/) and in “Plan site” (http://alexandrinabalasar.free.fr/plan_site.htm). In the English Index (http://alexandrinabalasar.free.fr/index_english.htm) there are links to two new articles, “Artists with Alexandrina” and “The Parish Church of Balasar”. Both have good photographs.
On next 5 December our collaborator Leo Madigan will be interviewed in the EWTN.

WHO WAS THE SAINT?

Some time ago, a lady from Balasar had an operation on her carotid artery. Immediately afterwards she suffered a stroke and lost her speech. The doctors predicted that she would need three to six months to recover. But her daughter was not satisfied and asked Blessed Alexandrina to intercede for her mother, so that she might have immediate health. When the daughter returned to the hospital the next day, she found that her mother was speaking normally! The daughter asked "So, mother, are you feeling better?" and her mother replied "Was there anything wrong with me?" The doctor, when he learned what had happened, only wanted to know:- "Who was the Saint?"

FIVE DAUGHTERS OF THE POVERTY OF THE BLESSED SACRAMENT IN BALASAR

Are already in Balasar, since 10th October, the first five young nuns for the foundation of a community that will live in Bld Alexandrina Centre. In the photo can be seen the founder and the nuns in the Alexandrina’s bedroom.

GOOD NEWS

One of the most important books on the Blessed Alexandrina was prepared by the Signoriles (Eugénie and Chiaffredo), and has the title Figlia del Dolore, Madre di Amore. It was sold out and it will have new edition.
This book, "almost an autobiography", in the first edition had 768 pages and was, after Cristo Gesù in Alexandrina, the largest work ever written on her – to whom was assigned the authorship. The first edition was of the Mimep - Docete (http://www.mimep.it/mimep.asp), which certainly will publish also the second one.
If you open this page in the Official Website http://alexandrinabalasar.free.fr/plan_site.htm, and later open Writing with Flowers, you will have a very nice surprise.
The booklet Alexandrina, Teach me is already on line: http://alexandrinabalasar.free.fr/alexandrina_teach_me_index.htm
There is the ideia of translating into Litvan a book on the Bd Alexandrina.

“SOLO PER AMORE!” IN THAI LANGUAGE

Solo per Amore!, an excellent book on the Bld Alexandrina, written in Italian by Eugénie Signorile as an autobiography, is already translated into Portuguese (http://alexandrinabalasar.free.fr/so_por_amor_index.htm), English (http://alexandrinabalasar.free.fr/for_love_alone_index.htm) and French (http://alexandrinabalasar.free.fr/seulement_par_amour_index.htm). Now it will have translation in Thai language, according information given by its authoress.
Leo, Baron Madigan of Lumiar wrote about it: “It is a highly thought-of work”.

TO THE ENDS OF THE EARTH

It was not possible to spend much time with the Irish pilgrims who visited Balasar last Sunday, due to the many people that came. Also, it wasn't possible to sell the new book on Blessed Alexandrina "To the Ends of the Earth". The book is beeing sold at 6 euros. If you want to receive it, please contact the publisher: manuelcosta@cm-pvarzim.pt;
Or search here: http://ww.cm-pvarzim.pt/biblioteca/?op=publ&tipo=biblioteca_poveira&sort=autor;
or write to:

Biblioteca Municipal Rocha Peixoto
Att. Mr Manuel Costa
Rua Padre Afonso Soares
4490-664 Póvoa de Varzim
Portugal

The book has been sent to Salesian houses throughout the world, to Catholic colleges of Theology and to many English-speaking people in the USA, England, Ireland, and so on.
Fr Mariano Pinho's mortal remains were returned to the Cemetery at Balasar on 14th October.

In the picture, the launch of To The Ends of the Earth in Balasar.