PILGRIMS FOR PEACE

An American group of about 30 Pilgrims for Peace came today, in the afternoon, to Balasar. As usually, Mr Jim and Mrs Jean Dudek and the Salesian Fr. Valinho, Sister Lucia’s nephew, led the group. They began their pilgrimage with the visit to the Bld Alexandrina’s House.

In the livingroom, they had the opportunity of hearing an explanation by José Ferreira on several features of Bld Alexandrina’s life, work and bibliography, with the precious aid of a translator, the Portuguese from Fatima Mr Armando. Later they visited Bld Alexandrina’s tomb in the parish Church.

These Pilgrims for Peace have a website where you can learn many interesting things: http://www.fatimapilgrimsforpeace.com/about_us.html. It has even a little page on Bld Alexandrina: http://www.fatimapilgrimsforpeace.com/photo_gallery_side_balasar.html

2007

The year that finished was an excellent year in terms of promoting our Beata.
It was the year of the arrival of the Fr Pinho’s mortal remains, with everything that wrapped the event, of the declaration of the Blessed Alexandrina like patroness of the Toca de Assis, of the explosive growth of the visits to the Official Website (namely from Brazil), of the publication of some books, as To the Ends of the Earth, of the arrival of the Icon, of the publication of the article of Giuseppina Sciascia in the Osservatore Romano and now of the letter Adoration, mending, spiritual motherhood for the priests.
It was also the year in which were done some studies, in which this blog in English began, etc.

"ALESSANDRINA" MARIA DA COSTA

Open please this website: http://www.clerus.org/
Choose a language (among six).
Find this little icon and click on it:
Go to number 05 and open Document.
Search Alessandrina. Alessandrina is indeed Alexandrina, our Beata, whose complete Portuguese name is Alexandrina Maria da Costa.
At least in the German version of the document you can find a picture. But the original copy is better…

MERRY CHRISTMAS

Merry Christmas
and Happy New Year with Bld Alexandrina!

ERROR CORRECTED

If you open the English page of the Bld Alexandrina’s website (http://alexandrinabalasar.free.fr/index_english.htm), you can see that an important error was corrected in the section of the Monthly Page. Indeed the link of the months sent to the Portuguese pages, but now it is sending to the English translation, offering a lot of very interesting information. See also "Christmas' quatrains".
Now we have in the website two little Alexandrina's biographies in Asiatic languages, Japanese and Tagalog.

CHRISTMAS POSTCARD

A Brazilian society, named Comunidade Servir (http://www.comunidadeservir.com.br/), i.e., Community to Serve, prepared a beautiful Christmas postcard, whit the following Bld Alexandrina’s nice text:

The Everything came down to the nothing, Greatness came down to poverty.
Love came down to coldness, to indifference, to misery, to indignity.
What a great love is Jesus!
Bld Alexandrina

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.