French nun Lucille Randon, who was the world’s oldest person, has died at the age of 118, the BBC reports.
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Randon died in her sleep in a nursing home of France in Toulon.
Born in 1904 in the south of France, she lived through two world wars, 27 heads of state and devoted most of her life to the Catholic faith. Randon changed her name to Sister Andre when she became a nun in 1944.
“Only the good Lord knows,” Randona once said about her long life in an interview.
“It’s sad news, but she wanted to join her late brother. It’s a release for her,” David Tavella, a spokesman for the nursing home, announced Randon’s death Tuesday, Jan. 17.
Sister Andre had a close relationship with her brothers. As she once told a reporter, one of her fondest memories was returning home after the First World War.
For a long time she was the oldest person in Europe, but after the death of the Japanese Kane Tanaka in April 2022, Randon entered the Guinness Book of Records as the oldest person in the world, the media reports.
