'People say that work kills, for me work kept me alive, I kept working until I was 108,' the Catholic nun told reporters Tuesday in the tea-room of the hospice where she lives in the Mediterranean city Toulon.
this week at the age of 118, said Tuesday she would now like to beat the record of oldest person ever and that work and caring for others had long kept her spry.
Sister Andre, Lucile Randon in the registry of birth, the eldest French and European citizen, prays in a wheelchair, on the eve of her 117th birthday in 2021."People should help each other and love each other instead of hating. If we shared all that, things would be a lot better," Sister Andre said. As Toulon mayor Hubert Falco told her that she was"an object of pride and an example to the whole world," she was making sure that he had safely stowed the chocolates and traditional Provence sweets that people had brought for her.Born Lucile Randon in 1904 in Ales, also in southern France, Sister Andre's days are punctuated by prayer, mealtimes and visits from other residents and hospice workers — as well as a steady flow of letters, almost all of which she responds to.
But she also has a record to beat: that of Jeanne Calment, who died in 1997 in Arles, southern France, at age 122 — the oldest confirmed age reached by any human being so far.
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