118-year-old French nun is the oldest person in the world today

Accordingly, priestess Lucile Randon is considered to be oldest person in the world after the 119-year-old grandmother in Japan passed away on April 19.

Lucile Randon, known as Sister Andre, was born in the south of France on February 11, 1904, when World War I broke out a decade later.

She now lives in a nursing home in Toulon along the Mediterranean coast, starting each day with breakfast and then a morning exercise session, although her eyes no longer see.

“She’s very happy, she’s very pleased with the news,” said the home’s communications director David Tavella, adding that a brief press conference will be held on the morning of April 26. (local time). But it’s just a next step, because her real goal is to get past Jeanne Calment.”

Jeanne Calment was a French woman who died in 1997 at the age of 122.

Mrs. Lucile Randon is 118 years old. (Photo: AP)

Previously, the person honored by the International Database of Longevity (IDL) and Guinness World Records was oldest person in the world is Kane Tanaka, who passed away in Japan on April 19.

Most people over 100 live in “green areas” of the world where residents live longer than average, such as Okinawa in Japan or on the Italian island of Sardinia.

As for France, although not considered a “green zone”, the country still records about 30,000 people over the age of 100, according to the Insee Statistical Institute, with about 40 of these people living to be 110 or older. .

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