Lucile Randon joined the Christian order at age of 41, worked until 108, said ‘only the good Lord knows’ the secret to her longevity
The world’s oldest person, French nun Lucile Randon, has died at the age of 118.
Randon, known as Sister Andre, was born in southern France on February 11, 1904, when World War I was still a decade away.
She died in her sleep at her nursing home in Toulon.
Guinness World Records officially acknowledged her status in April 2022.
Randon was born in the year New York opened its first subway and when the Tour de France had only been staged once.
She grew up in a Protestant family as the only girl among three brothers, living in the southern town of Ales.
Driven by a desire to “go further,” she joined the Daughters of Charity order of nuns at the relatively late age of 41.
Sister Andre was then assigned to a hospital in Vichy, where she worked for 31 years.
In 2021 she survived COVID-19, which infected 81 residents of her nursing home.
Randon told reporters last year that her work and caring for others had kept her spry.
Jeanne Calment, who died in 1997 in Arles, southern France, at the age of 122 holds the record for the oldest confirmed age reached by any human.
Source TOI/ Photo Nicolas Tucat