The French sister André, who was the dean of humanity known since April, died in her sleep on the night of Monday to this Tuesday January 17 in her retirement home in Toulon, in the south of France, announced to AFP its spokesman on Tuesday evening.
“Let people help each other instead of hating each other”: the lesson of Sister André, dean of humanity at 118 years old
“She died at 2 a.m. There is great sadness but she wanted it, it was her desire to join her beloved brother. For her, it’s a release.explained David Tavella, in charge of communication at the Sainte-Catherine-Labouré accommodation for dependent elderly people where she lived.
Dean since April 2022
No official organization attributes these titles of dean or dean, but specialists agreed that Sister André was until now the oldest living person whose civil status had been verified. The Guinness Book of Records also recorded this record on April 25, after the death at 119 of Japanese Kane Tanaka.
For several years, she had not hidden a certain weariness: she wanted “retreat from this case”. But “the good Lord does not hear me”she confided to AFP who had met her at length in January 2022.
Confined to a wheelchair, blind, Sister André, born Lucile Randon on February 11, 1904 in Alès (Gard), regretted having lost part of her physical abilities. “They say that work kills, it was work that made me live, I worked until I was 108”she said in April 2022 when she was made dean of humanity, after having been dean of the French and then of the Europeans.
