Photo: CHRISTOPHE SIMON/AFP via Getty Images
Meet the world’s oldest living person!
On Monday,Guinness World Recordsconfirmed that a French nun named Sister André is the world’s oldest person at 118 years and 73 days old.
Sister André is the oldest living nun, third-oldest French person and third-oldest European person on record to date, said the GWR.
CHRISTOPHE SIMON/AFP via Getty Images
Born in France on February 11, 1904 as Lucile Randon, Sister André has left her mark on the world as a teacher, governess and caretaker to children amid World War II. After the war, she spent nearly three decades working with elderly people and orphans.
She worked at Vichy, an Auvergne-Rhone-Alpes area hospital, for 28-years before transitioning into a Catholic nun.
In addition to WWII, she survived the Spanish Flu pandemic in 1918 and most recently the coronavirus pandemic — despite testing positive for COVID-19 on Jan. 16, 2021. She is also the oldest living survivor of COVID-19, said the GWR.
She has lived in a retirement home for 12 years and is confined to a wheelchair and partially deaf.
“They get me up at 7 a.m., they give me my breakfast, then they put me at my desk where I stay busy with little things,” she said per the GWR on a typical day in the retirement home.
Sister André enjoys chocolate and sweets occasionally and drinks a glass of wine everyday.
“Her glass of wine maintains her and which is perhaps her longevity secret. I don’t know — I don’t encourage people to drink a glass of wine everyday!” said a staff member from the record breaker’s home facility per the GWR.
source: people.com
