the french sister andrérecognized since April as the world’s oldest person, died early Tuesday morning at her nursing home in Toulon (south), announced to the AFP the establishment spokesperson.
“He passed away at 2 in the morning,” while he was sleeping, the official said when reporting the death of Lucile Randonknown as sister andréborn on February 11, 1904 in the southern French city of Ales.
The title of oldest person in the world is not attributed by any official body, but specialists agreed that the nun was the oldest person whose marital status might be verified.
The Guinness Book of Records conferred that rank on April 25, 2022, following the death, at the age of 119, of the Japanese Kane Tanaka.
Sister AndréIn the last stretch of her life, blind and in a wheelchair, she had not hidden a certain fatigue for some years and confessed that her wish was to “die soon”.
But “God doesn’t listen to me, he must be deaf,” said the woman in a lengthy interview with AFP in February last year.
Born into a non-practicing Protestant family, the nun He took the habit late, in the congregation of the Daughters of Charity, and worked until the late 1970s.
But then she continued to take care of other retirees, younger than her.
“It is said that work kills, but it is work that makes me live, because I worked until I was 108 years old,” the nun said on that occasion.
“We feel great sadness, but she already wanted it, her wish was to be reunited with her beloved brother. For her, it is a liberation,” she announced to the AFP David Tavella, in charge of communication at the Sainte-Catherine-Labouré nursing home in Toulon (south), on the Mediterranean coast where he lived.
Resisted COVID-19
in the nursing home of Toulon he liked chocolates and also taste a glass of port.
She went to mass every morning dressed in her religious uniform, always with a blue cloth covering her hair.
Sister Teresaanother of the residents of the nursing home, said last April that her mission was to “help others” and that “her faith gave her strength.”
The door of her modest room was always open for anyone who wanted to come and greet her.
In 2021, he gave him the COVID-19 and he overcame it without difficulty, for which reason he received numerous letters from many parts of the world, to which he responded, except when they asked for pieces of his hair.
He was joking regarding the record he had to break, that of Jeanne Calmentdied at the age of 122 in Arles, in 1997, in the south of France that they both shared.
He shared many memories thanks to his intact memory, preserved until the end. Among them the dramatic loss of her twin Lydie at 18 months or her arrival in Paris.
He always looked forward to the visit of his great-nephews or great-grandnephews or that of the mayor of Toulon, Hubert Falco, whom he was very fond of and who expressed his “immense sadness” at his death. (AFP)
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