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As the world’s oldest surviving person, French nun Lucile Randon survived 2 satellite wars — and respective pandemics. She died astatine 118.
Also known arsenic Sister André — and arsenic the oldest nun live and oldest covid-19 survivor, according to Guinness World Records — she passed distant connected Tuesday, conscionable weeks earlier her 119th birthday, a spokesperson for the nursing location wherever she spent her last years told the Associated Press.
“There’s a large sadness but … it was her tendency to articulation her beloved brother,” said spokesperson David Tavella, according to the AFP quality agency. “For her, it’s a liberation.”
Born connected Feb. 11, 1904, Sister André lived done some the 1918-19 influenza and the coronavirus pandemics.
She told French media successful 2021 that her covid-19 symptoms were truthful mild she did not adjacent cognize she had been infected.
As a young woman, Sister André worked arsenic a teacher and governess earlier becoming a Catholic nun successful 1944, Guinness said pursuing her death. She besides spent astir 3 decades moving astatine a infirmary with orphans and aged radical successful France.
She mislaid her show successful her aboriginal years but continued to enjoy cocoa and a regular solid of wine.
She was officially recognized arsenic the oldest surviving idiosyncratic successful April past year, pursuing the decease of 119-year-old Japanese pistillate Kane Tanaka.
“They accidental enactment kills, but it’s enactment that made maine live,” she said aft receiving the title, according to French media. “I worked until I was 108.”
Her successor to the rubric of world’s oldest idiosyncratic has not been officially announced, but according to the Gerontology Research Group’s World Supercentenarian Rankings List, the caller grounds holder appears to beryllium María Branyas Morera, a 115-year-old Spanish pistillate calved successful the United States.
She is 1 of lone 2 radical live known to person celebrated their 115th birthday: The other, Fusa Tatsumi, lives successful Osaka, Japan, and is 52 days her junior.
The grounds for the oldest idiosyncratic ever was held by Frenchwoman Jeanne Louise Calment, who was 122 years and 164 days aged erstwhile she died successful 1997.
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