The French nun Sister André, the oldest person in the world, died at the age of 110

From the residence in Toulon, France, the official spokesperson reported that the 118 years passed Lucile Randonbetter known as the French nun Sister André.

Sister André was born in Arles on February 11, 1904 under the name of Lucile into a non-practicing Protestant family. The passage of time and her faith led her to become a governess in the homes of wealthy families in Paris and Marseille.

In 1944 he joined a charitable order. A year later, and for 28 years, he was in charge of orphaned children in the Vichy hospital. Although he took the habit late, in the congregation of the Daughters of Charity, where he worked until the late 1970s.

Since he entered the asylum in 2009, his habits have not changed. He got up between 7 and 8, a short nap and went to bed around 18:30. She liked listening to the prayers and enjoyed the walks in the garden.

Sister André, on the eve of her 117th birthday, contracted coronavirus Covid-19 and survived the virus that killed more than 6 million people worldwideAccording to official figures from the World Health Organization.

The last days of the French nun, the product of blindness and disability, were marked by prayer, meals and visits from other residents and workers in the residence.

However, exhaustion and physical impossibilities had led her to confess that her wish was to “die soon.” “God doesn’t listen to me, he must be deaf,” said the woman in an interview in February of last year. During that interview, the nun herself stressed: “It is said that work kills, but it is work that makes me live, because I worked until I was 108 years old.”

In relation to the recent death, David Tavella, communication manager at the Sainte-Catherine-Labouré care home for the elderly, told AFP: “It is very sad, but it is what she wanted, her desire was to reach her beloved brother It was a liberation for her.”

The Guinness Book of Records ranked him as the longest-lived person in the world since April 25, 2022, after the death, at the age of 119, of the Japanese Kane Tanaka. As of today and with the death of Randon, The oldest person in the world happened to be the Spanish María Branyas Morera, with 115 years and 316 days, since she was born on March 4, 1907.

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