Daughters of Charity - CathNews New Zealand https://cathnews.co.nz Catholic News New Zealand Thu, 28 Apr 2022 07:11:28 +0000 en-NZ hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.1 https://cathnews.co.nz/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/cropped-cathnewsfavicon-32x32.jpg Daughters of Charity - CathNews New Zealand https://cathnews.co.nz 32 32 70145804 118-year-old Daughter of Charity is world's oldest person https://cathnews.co.nz/2022/04/28/118-year-old-daughter-of-charity-is-worlds-oldest-person/ Thu, 28 Apr 2022 07:51:17 +0000 https://cathnews.co.nz/?p=146204 Sister André Randon, a 118-year-old member of the Daughters of Charity in France, is now the oldest living person on earth. She attained that distinction on April 19 when the previous title-holder, a Japanese woman, died at age 119. Sister André, who has been the oldest person in Europe since 2009, contracted COVID-19 in January Read more

118-year-old Daughter of Charity is world's oldest person... Read more]]> Sister André Randon, a 118-year-old member of the Daughters of Charity in France, is now the oldest living person on earth.

She attained that distinction on April 19 when the previous title-holder, a Japanese woman, died at age 119.

Sister André, who has been the oldest person in Europe since 2009, contracted COVID-19 in January 2020 but "did not even "realise it".

She celebrated her 118th birthday on February 11 with Mass and a festive lunch in a nursing home in Toulon, a Mediterranean coastal city where she's lived since 2009.

The meal was preceded - as usual - with a small glass of port.

Sister André had a string of prominent visitors in the morning. They included Geneviève Levy, the local representative in the French Parliament, and Hubert Falco, Toulon's mayor.

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