According to media report, world's oldest person, Lucile Randon, died at the age of 118. Randon, also known as Sister Andre, was born in southern France on February 11, 1904, a decade before World War I. She died in her sleep at her nursing home in Toulon.
Sister Andre had previously been thought of be the oldest European, but after Japan's Kane Tanaka passed away at the age of 119 last year made her the world's oldest person. Guinness World Records had officially recognised her status in April 2022.
French Nun Lucile Randon was raised in the southern town of Ales, the only girl among three brothers, in a Protestant family. She worked as a governess for wealthy families' children in Paris, which she once described as the happiest time of her life.
At the age of 26, she converted to Catholicism and was baptized.
She joined the Daughters of Charity order of nuns at the surprisingly late age of 41, motivated by a desire to "go further." After that, Sister Andre was transferred to a hospital in Vichy, where she worked for 31 years. Later in life, she moved to the Mediterranean city of Toulon. Prayer, mealtimes, and visits from residents and hospice personnel interrupted her days in the nursing home.