Sister Andre, the oldest person in the world, has died at the age of 118.

French sister Andrerecognized since April as the oldest person in the world, she died early Tuesday morning at her nursing home in Toulon (south), she told reporters. AFP institution representative.

‘He passed away at 2 a.m.’ while he slept, an official said, announcing the death Lucille Randonknown as Sister André, was born February 11, 1904 in the southern French city of Ales.

The title of the oldest person in the world is not assigned by any official body, but experts agreed that the nun was the oldest person whose marital status could be verified.

The Guinness Book of Records awarded this title on April 25, 2022, after the death of a Japanese man at the age of 119. Kane Tanaka.

Sister AndreIn the last stretch of her life, blind and confined to a wheelchair, for several years she did not hide some fatigue and admitted that her desire was “quick to die.”

But “God doesn’t listen to me, he must be deaf,” the woman said in a lengthy interview with AFP last February.

Born into a non-practicing Protestant family, the nun took the rite late in the congregation of the Daughters of Charity and worked until the late 1970s.

But then she continued to take care of other pensioners, younger than her.

“They say that work kills, but work makes me live, because I worked until I was 108,” said the nun.

“We are very sad, but she already wanted this, her desire was to be reunited with her beloved brother. For her, this is liberation,” she said. AFP David Tavella, in charge of communications at the Sainte-Catherine-Labouré nursing home in Toulon (south), on the Mediterranean coast, where he lived.

Resists COVID-19

in the nursing home toulon he loved chocolate and also tried a glass of port.

Every morning she went to Mass in her religious uniform, always with a blue cloth covering her hair.

Sister Teresaanother nursing home resident, 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 contracted COVID-19 and overcame it without difficulty, to which he received numerous letters from many parts of the world, to which he answered, except when they asked for pieces of his hair.

He joked about the record he was about to break. Jeanne Calmentdied at the age of 122 in Arles, in 1997, in the south of France, which they both shared.

He shared many memories thanks to his intact memory, preserved to the end. Among them is 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-nephews or the mayor of Toulon. Hubert Falco, whom he loved very much and who expressed his “deep sadness” at his death. (AFP)