According to her retirement home, Sister Andre, a French nun who held the record for living the longest, died in Toulon, France, at the age of 118. David Tavella, her spokesman, confirmed that she passed away on Tuesday at 2 a.m. local time. Although there is a lot of sadness, she wanted it to happen since she wanted to be with her loving brother. It represents independence for her,” Tavella remarked.
Hubert Falco, the mayor of the city, also tweeted the information. “I learned tonight about the loss of the world’s oldest person #SisterAndré with much sadness and emotion.” Born Lucile Randon on February 11, 1904, she took the name Sister Andre when she joined a Catholic charitable order in 1944. She even survived COVID-19 in January 2021 after testing positive for the virus a month before her 117th birthday.
The oldest person alive as of today is 115-year-old Mara Branyas Morera
She used to look for children during World War II before becoming a catholic nun, and she then worked for 28 years in a hospital looking after orphans and the elderly. The cherished nun, who turned 118 in February of last year, received a birthday card from French President Emmanuel Macron. Notably, Macron is her country’s 18th president overall.
According to the Gerontology Research Group’s (GRG) World Supercentenarian Rankings List, Sister Andre was the oldest living person in the world. After Japanese woman Kane Tanaka passed away on April 19, 2022, at the age of 119, she surpassed her as the oldest person still alive in the world. The oldest person alive as of today is 115-year-old Mara Branyas Morera, a supercentenarian from Spain who was born in the United States. Sister Andre once attributed her long life and good health to chocolate and a glass of wine.
