The Guinness Book recognized the French nun officially, in April 2022, as the oldest person.
He was the oldest known person in the world and died this Tuesday at the age of 118. She is about the French nun Lucile Randon, also known as Sister André.
The news of his death was released by the asylum in the town of Toulon, in the southeast of France, where he lived. According to those responsible for the center, he died in his sleep.
“There is great sadness but… it was his wish to join his beloved brother. For her it is a liberation,” a spokesman for the asylum told the AFP agency.
Born in the south of France on February 11, 1904, for many years she ranked second in the Guinness Book as the world’s longest-lived person, second only to 119-year-old Japanese Kane Tanaka, who died last year.
He then became the oldest person on record.
The Guinness Book officially recognized it in April 2022.
In 2021, he survived the covid-19 pandemic, after 81 residents of his nursing home were infected.
Randon was born in the year New York opened its first subway line and a decade before the start of World War I.
She grew up in a Protestant family as the only girl among three siblings in the southern town of Alès.
One of his best memories was the return of two of his brothers at the end of World War I, he told the AFP agency in an interview on his 116th birthday.
“It was rare in families, which usually had two dead instead of two alive. They both came back,” she said.
She worked as a governess in Paris for the children of wealthy families, a period she once called “the happiest time of her life.”
The woman converted to Catholicism and was baptized at the age of 26.
The nun, driven by the desire to “go further”, joined the Daughters of Charity order at the relatively old age of 41.
Sister André was then assigned to a hospital in Vichy, where she worked for 31 years.
Then he moved to Toulon, on the Mediterranean coast. Her days at the nursing home were marked by prayer, meals, and visits from residents and hospice workers.
He also received a constant stream of letters, replying to almost all of them.
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