She was young. Strong. Climbing a tree like any other girl in the countryside of Brazil.

One fall changed everything.

And for the next 60 years, she would live on the Eucharist alone.

The Church now calls her Servant of God Floripes de Jesús.

But in her town, they simply called her Lola.

Floripes de Jesús was born in 1913 in Minas Gerais, Brazil. A simple girl from a large, humble family.

At 16 years old, she fell out of a tree.

The accident left her paraplegic.

But something even stranger happened.

Her body changed.

She no longer felt hunger.

She no longer felt thirst.

She no longer felt sleep.

No medical remedy worked. Doctors tried. Nothing helped.

Food made her violently ill. Water, too. Her body rejected everything.

Everything — except one thing.

The consecrated Host.

Lola began receiving just one Holy Communion a day. And that was enough.

Days passed.

Weeks passed.

Years passed.

She lived this way for 60 years.

No food.

No water.

Only the Eucharist.

And she did not make her suffering comfortable.

For a long time, she remained in a bed without a mattress — offering her pain as penance.

Her small room became a pilgrimage site.

Thousands came.

A visitors’ book from the 1950s recorded 32,980

visitors in just one month.

They came out of curiosity.

They came in doubt.

They left changed.

Lola had one message for everyone:

Go to Confession.

Receive Holy Communion.

Complete the First Friday devotion to the Sacred Heart of Jesus.

She spoke constantly about reparation. About love for the Heart of Christ.

She would say:

“Whoever wants to look for me, finds me in the Heart of Jesus.”

Her life became so well known that the Archbishop of Mariana, Helvécio Gomes de Oliveira, asked her to stop receiving visitors and to live in silence and privacy.

She obeyed immediately.

No resistance.

No drama.

Just obedience.

The bishop allowed the Blessed Sacrament to be exposed in her room. Mass was celebrated there once a week. Lay ministers brought her daily Communion.

Hidden again.

But not forgotten.

She dedicated her suffering to praying for priests and for the Church.

In April 1999, Lola died.

Her funeral was attended by 22 priests and around 12,000 faithful.

In 2005, the Holy See declared her a Servant of God — the first step toward sainthood.

She could not walk.

But she drew thousands to Christ.

She could not eat.

But she fed others with faith.

She had nothing.

But the Eucharist was enough.

If you doubt the Real Presence…

If suffering feels meaningless…

If your life feels confined to one small room…

Look at Lola.

One Host.

One heart surrendered.

Sixty years of silent witness.

Servant of God Floripes de Jesús, pray for us.