Provincial House of the Teresian Sisters of Brazil - CathNews New Zealand https://cathnews.co.nz Catholic News New Zealand Mon, 25 Mar 2024 00:07:15 +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 Provincial House of the Teresian Sisters of Brazil - CathNews New Zealand https://cathnews.co.nz 32 32 70145804 World's oldest nun is a 115-year-old Brazilian https://cathnews.co.nz/2024/03/25/worlds-oldest-nun-is-115-year-old-brazilian/ Mon, 25 Mar 2024 04:55:39 +0000 https://cathnews.co.nz/?p=169317 "My secret, my great secret, is to pray," said Sister Inah Canabarro Lucas, the oldest nun in the world at 115 years of age. "I pray the rosary every day for all the people around the world." According to the Gerontological Research Group, the Teresian nun is also the oldest person in Brazil and Latin Read more

World's oldest nun is a 115-year-old Brazilian... Read more]]> "My secret, my great secret, is to pray," said Sister Inah Canabarro Lucas, the oldest nun in the world at 115 years of age. "I pray the rosary every day for all the people around the world."

According to the Gerontological Research Group, the Teresian nun is also the oldest person in Brazil and Latin America.

Sister Inah expressed her good humour and joy in the few words she managed to say in a March 9 interview with ACI Digital, CNA's Portuguese-language news partner. She repeated a prayer several times to the Virgin Mary, praying to her "for all the people of the entire world."

The nun currently lives in Porto Alegre in Rio Grande do Sul state in Santo Enrique de Ossó Home, adjacent to the Provincial House of the Teresian Sisters of Brazil, the community she entered in 1927 at the age of 19.

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