The world’s oldest person Sister Andre has died in her retirement home at the aged of 118.
The news of her death was reported by Reuters and confirmed by her retirement home on Tuesday.
It was reported that the French nun died peacefully in her sleep
Born in 1904, a decade before the start of World War One as Lucile Randon, she took the name of Sister Andre a year before the end of World War Two, when she joined a Catholic charitable order in 1944.
Speaking as she celebrated her 117th birthday in February 2021, following a health scare, Sister Andre said death did not worry her.
“No, I wasn’t scared because I wasn’t scared to die,” she commented.
That birthday was marked with a cake and a prayer. “It pleased me so, so, so much,” she said.
“I met all those that I loved and thank God for giving them to me. I thank God.”
According to the Gerontology Research Group’s World Supercentenarian Rankings List, the French nun was the world’s oldest living person.
She survived two global health crises – Spanish flu in 1918 and, in the last few years, COVID-19.
