Sister André poses for a portrait at the Sainte Catherine Laboure nursing home in Toulon, southern France, on April 27, 2022. Following her death, the oldest living person today is Maria Branyas Morera of Spain. Dental at the age of 115.
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Sister André poses for a portrait at the Sainte Catherine Laboure nursing home in Toulon, southern France, on April 27, 2022. Following her death, the oldest living person today is Maria Branyas Morera of Spain. Dental at the age of 115.
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Sister André, the world’s oldest person, died on Tuesday at the age of 118 years and 340 days. Less than a month to her 119th birthday, she already holds the records for the oldest living person and oldest living nun, according to Guinness World Records.
She was born in France on February 11, 1904, named Lucile Randon and took the name Sister André in 1944. She spent most of her life in religious service as a Catholic nun. Roman.
Sister André became the oldest living person last year when the oldest person before, Kane Tanaka of Japan, died at the age of 119 in April 2022. Theo Geriatric Research GroupThe oldest living person today is Maria Branyas Morera of Spain at 115 years and 320 days, as of Wednesday.
Sister André also holds the record for being the oldest person to survive COVID-19, she tested positive a few weeks before her 117th birthday in 2021. She recovered from the illness after about three weeks. She also lived through the 1918 Spanish flu pandemic.
In her youth, Sister André was a teacher and took care of children during World War II. She then spent 28 years working at a hospital with orphans and the elderly before becoming a nun.
In 2019, Sister André became an honorary citizen of Toulon, France, and received a personal letter and a blessing rosary from Pope Francis.
Sister André is about three years away from setting another record as the oldest person ever. That thing the record is held by Jeanne Louise Calmentalso of France, aged 122 years and 164 days and died in 1997, according to the Guinness Book of World Records.
