Lucile Randon, the world oldest known person does at 118. Lucile Randon was a French nun before her death. She died in her sleep on Tuesday at the nursing home where she lived.
Lucile had taken the name of Sister Andre when she became a nun in 1944.
The spokesperson of the Sainte-Catherine-Labiure nursing home, David Tavella had told the AFP news agency that she desired to join her beloved brother. For her, “it’s a liberation,” he said.
Lucille Randon was born on February 11, 1904, and was recorded as the world’s oldest living person by the Gerontology Research Group (GRG) world Supercentenarian Ranking List.
She had become the world’s oldest person in Europe following the death of Japan’s Kane Tanaka at 119 last year.
Also, the Guinness World Records officially recognized her status in April 2022 as the world oldest person.
She was born in the year New York opened its first subway, and World War I was still a decade away.
Lucile Randon’s journey into Catholicism
Randon grew up in a protestant family with three boys in the Southern town of Ales, France.
But became a Catholic and baptized at the age of 26.
She joined the Daughters of Charity order of nuns when she was 41, assigned to a hospital in Vichy, France, where she worked for 31 years, and later moved to Toulon along the Mediterranean coast.
While living, Randon believed that “People should help each other and love each other instead of hating. If we shared all that, things would be a lot better.”
Additionally, she had said that work kept her alive.
“People say that work kills, for me work kept me alive, I kept working until I was 108,” she said.
Likely, France’s new oldest person is now 112-year-old Marie-Rose Tessier, a woman from Vendee, longevity expert Laurent Toussaint told AFP.
But Toussaint warned that it was always possible an older person had not yet made themselves known
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