A French nun who recently celebrated her 118th birthday has become the world’s oldest known person after the death of a Japanese woman on Monday, who was one year older to her.
Lucile Randon, known as Sister Andre, was born in southern France on February 11, 1904, and lives at a nursing home in Toulon along the Mediterranean coast.
Home’s communications director David Tavella, said that a press conference would be held over the feat.
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Earlier, Jeanne Calment, a French woman, who was reportedly 122-years-old died in 1997. Earlier this year, Sister Andre got a handwritten New Year’s greeting from President Emmanuel Macron.
She worked as a governess in Paris. Earlier, the world’s oldest person in the International Database on Longevity (IDL) and Guinness World Records was Kane Tanaka.
