As a response to the legalization of abortion and the resulting holocaust, a group of Catholic lay women who were already spiritually engaged in the battle for life banded together to form an organization that would serve women in crisis pregnancies. Their mission has been dedicated to meeting the needs of every client in a compassionate and nonjudgmental manner, providing them with information and education, both material and spiritual, to alleviate obstacles to protecting and preserving human life. For over three decades they have served the local community, the disenfranchised, the impoverished from all walks of life, all faiths, all situations, on a wing and a prayer, and timely and heartfelt individual donations. The Alexandrina Center, a 100 percent volunteer apostolate and fully charitable organization, continues to engage in loving and caring purposes to reinforce the principle that life is worth living in all of its stages, from conception to natural death; providing assistance, positive services and creative life- and familyaffirming choices with dignity. Tens of thousands of clients have already received help through the Center’s programs.
The Center was named after the most remarkable Blessed Alexandrina de Costa, who offered her life of suffering to God for the sins of man. Who Is Blessed Alexandrina?
Blessed Alexandrina Maria de Costa of Balasar, Portugal (1904 – 1955), one of the great mystics of modern times, was beatified in 2004. A ‘victim soul’, chosen by Christ to suffer in atonement for the sins of humanity, she was bedridden with paralysis for life from the age of twenty after sustaining injuries at the age of 14 while escaping from three attackers. Rather than risk her innocence, she chose to jump out an upper story window.
