Sister Andre, a French nun who held the record for being the oldest person ever, passed away at 118.
French nun Lucile Randon, who held the record for being the oldest person ever, passed away on Tuesday at 118 in Toulon, France.
Randon’s spokesman, David Tavella, said she died at 2 am on Tuesday. “There is great sadness, but she wanted it to happen; she desired to join her beloved brother. For her, it is freedom,” Tavella said.
In a tweet announcing her passing, Toulon Mayor Hubert Falco wrote, “it is with immense sadness and emotion that I learned tonight of the passing of the world’s oldest person #SisterAndré.”
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Before the passing of Japan’s Kane Tanaka at the age of 119 last year, the sister was acknowledged as the oldest European.
In the French village of Ales, Lucile Randon, also referred to as Sister Andre, was born in 1904. She survived two World Wars and the 1918 Spanish flu epidemic because she was born to survive.
She became a Catholic when she was 19 years old, and eight years later, she was ordained as a nun. Sister Andre spent a significant part of the Second World War caring for children. In her younger years, she worked as a teacher and governess.
She traveled to Vichy after the war to serve in a hospital where she supported elderly patients and orphans for 28 years.
She survived a case of Covid-19 in 2021 after the virus infected the nursing home where she resided and killed 10 other patients. She later responded, “I wasn’t scared because I wasn’t scared to die,” when asked if having Covid made her nervous.
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Randon admitted to French radio in 2020 that she was unsure how she had survived for so long. “I have no idea what the secret is. Only God can answer that question,” she remarked, as reported by us.
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