By By Elsie Udoh
A French nun, Ms Lucile Randon, who assumed the name Sister André has reportedly died at her nursing home in Toulon, France, at age 118, making her the world’s oldest person.
According to the BBC, Sister André, formerly a Protestant, became a nun in 1944 and devoted much of her life to Catholicism died in her sleep.
During her lifetime, Sister André witnessed two world wars and saw 27 French heads of state. When she was once asked about her longevity, she told reporters, “Only the good Lord knows.”
Sister André was a hard worker as she cared for other elderly people despite being blind and reliant on a wheelchair.
In an interview last April with the AFP news agency, she said that “work kept her alive,” and she kept working until she was 108 years old.
Sister André featured in the Guinness Book of Records twice. First, around last April when she stood as the world’s oldest person following the death of Kane Tanaka, a Japanese woman who lived until she was 119 years old and again in 2021 when she became the oldest person to recover from COVID-19.
