Brazil: Religious Sister Is Now the Oldest Person in the World
Sr. Inah Canabarro Lucas
The Brazilian sister Inah Canabarro Lucas, 116 years old, is now the oldest person in the world, after the death on December 29, 2024 of Tomiko Itooka of Japan. This is what the Guinness Book of Records has just announced.
Sr. Inah Canabarro Lucas was born on June 8, 1908 in Sao Francisco de Assis in Brazil. She was not baptized until the age of 17. After a stay in Montevideo, the capital of Uruguay, she taught Portuguese and mathematics in Tijuca, near Rio de Janeiro, beginning in 1930. In 1934, at the age of 26, she took her perpetual vows in the congregation of the Teresian Sisters.
Since 1980, she has lived in the provincial house of the congregation in Porto Alegre. In 2018, on the occasion of her 110th birthday, she received a letter of greeting from Pope Francis. In January 2021, she was vaccinated against Covid-19. However, she contracted the coronavirus in 2022, but survived the disease.
Sr. Canabarro Lucas is the second Catholic sister to hold the title of oldest person in the world. Between April 19, 2022 and January 17, 2023, the French Daughter of Charity, Sr. Lucile Randon, was considered the oldest person. She died at the age of 118 years and 340 days.
(Source : KNA/DICI n°452 – FSSPX.Actualités)
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