French nun André, believed to be the oldest person in the world, has died at the age of 118. She died in her sleep on Tuesday evening at a retirement home in Toulon, southern France, the institution’s spokesman David Tavella told AFP news agency on Tuesday evening.
“There is great sadness, but she wanted it, it was her wish, to go to her beloved brother. It’s a liberation for them,” says Tavella. The nun, real name Lucile Randon, survived two world wars and the Spanish flu.
Since the death of the Japanese Kane Tanaka last April, Sister André is considered the oldest person in the world. The French celebrated her 118th birthday on February 11. Shortly before her 117th birthday, she had survived a corona infection.
Only entered religious orders at the age of 40
André was born on February 11, 1904 in Alès, South of France, into a family of Protestant descent. It was not until she was a young adult that she was baptized a Catholic. At the age of about 40 she joined the order of the Vincentians.
She worked for more than three decades in a hospital in the city of Vichy, caring for orphans and the elderly.
Source: Krone
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