A French nun who was believed to be the world’s oldest person has died a few weeks before her 119th birthday, the spokesperson for her nursing home in southern France said Wednesday.
Lucile Randon, known as Sister André, was born in the town of Ales, southern France, on Feb. 11, 1904. She was also one of the world’s oldest survivors of COVID-19.
Spokesman David Tavella said she died at 2 a.m. on Tuesday at the Sainte-Catherine-Laboure nursing home in the town of Toulon.
The Gerontology Research Group, which validates details of people thought to be 110 or older, listed her as the oldest known person in the world after the death of Japan’s Kane Tanaka, aged 119, last year.
Sister André tested positive for the coronavirus in January 2021, shortly before her 117th birthday, but she had so few symptoms that she didn’t even realize she was infected. Her survival made headlines both in France and beyond.
In April last year, asked about her exceptional longevity through two world wars, she told French media that “working … makes you live. I worked until I was 108.”
She was known to enjoy a daily glass of wine and chocolate.
The oldest living known person in the world listed by the Gerontology Research Group is now American-born Maria Branyas Morera, who is living in Spain, and is 115.
(AP)
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She was at one point in time, the worlds youngest person.
she was already more than a decade old before ww1 began
moderate consumption of red wine does miracles for your body’s health
it helps with the calm and healthy flow of blood, and unconstricts your veins and arteries
RIP
Whitecar,
How do you know? Most probably someone else in the world was born at the same time
Baby Squirrel, here’s the big secret that the official health establishment refuses to tell us: Most if not all of the benefits of red wine can be had just as easily from any alcoholic drink. It’s the alcohol that’s doing the major good, and the flavinoids and whatever that are in red wine add just a tiny bit more, if anything at all. Alcohol, in moderation, is a wonder-drug, a gift from Hashem. But overdosing on it is as harmful as overdosing on many other powerful medicines. The ideal dose is 1-2 drinks a day, no more.
coffee addict: no matter what, every person at some point of their lives was the worlds youngest person (even if it was just for 1/8 of a second or less)
Coffee
I think a better point is that even if no one else was born at the same time as her. She couldn’t of been the world’s youngest person as someone was born after her but she’s the worlds oldest person as so far no one lived longer than her.