Catching up with has to be a bit like, well, trying to catch the perfect wave at one of the many beautiful beaches in her adopted country, Brazil. Timing is everything. A frequent flyer, Alessandra has spent much of the last eight years crisscrossing the globe from Europe to Asia, sharing Christian Science with those who are receptive. To Alessandra, a Christian Science lecturer and teacher, home is wherever she happens to be. It has been a valuable lesson that she learned early on, when she first began to study Christian Science.
Born in Rome, Italy, Alessandra attended a parochial elementary school until shortly after the end of World War II, when her parents moved Alessandra and the younger of her two sisters with them to Sao Paulo. Her father had been offered a promising job in the growing Brazilian automobile industry. There, at the age of eleven, Alessandra got what she refers to as her first taste of religious freedom.
Years later, lonely and far from home at a university in São Paulo (her parents had since moved elsewhere in Brazil), she first learned about Christian Science from her boyfriend, a law student. She fell in love with the logic of Christian Science, and also with her boyfriend, whom she married while still in college. They had two boys, Flávio and Marcos, who are now adults and attend the branch church they grew up in. Alessandra has been in the public healing practice of Christian Science for many years and a Christian Science teacher since 2003. Fluent in Portuguese, Italian, Spanish, and English, she has been a great asset to the Christian Science Board of Lectureship by being available to give lectures in all four languages.
