Brazilian Nun Who Was World’s Oldest Person Dies at 116

Sister Inah Canabarro Lucas, a soccer -loving nun from Brazil who believed he was the oldest person in the world and whose longevity had celebrated the leg by Pope Francis, died Wednesday, the religious congregation, the Brazil Irmsian.

He was 116 years old and would have turned 117 years in a few more weeks, according to the Teresian Irmãs, which is translated as “Teresian sisters.” He had been living in a retirement house in the city of Porto Alegre in southern Brazil.

In a publication on social networks, his congregation thanks for his life of service and dedication, and asked the Lord to “welcome him to his infinite love.” Irmãs Teresiana did not give a cause of death, but his family told the Brazilian television station RBS TV that he had died of old age.

While Hering and Heard decreased towards the end of his life, he avoided surgery until a cataract procedure when he was 106, sister Rita Fernandes Barbosa, the provincial coordinator of the Congregation, told the station earlier this year.

In January, Guinness’s world records declared Sister Inh the oldest living person in the world after the death of Tomiko Itaka, a Japanese woman who was born before the beginning of World War I and the Sinking of the Titanic. She was also 116 years old.

In the year in which sister INAH was born, the T model was presented by Henry Ford. Insulin had not discovered, and the first demonstration of the world of a TV was still several years.

Sister Inah’s exact birthday has been a source of debate and confusion. A record had listed as June 8, 1908, the date recognized by Guinness World Records and Longesvest, which maintains a supercentrary database, people who are 110 years old or more.

But her family and friends have said that sister INAH was born on May 27, 1908 in São Francisco de Assis in the state of Rio Grande do Sul. They said that her parents had traveled a great distance and several days to register her birth.

When she was a child, she was so thin that her parents feared that she would not survive, her nephew, Cleer Canabarro, who is 80 years old, Associated Press in January. His great -grandfather was a general general general who had tasks in cash in the turbulent period after Brazil declared the independence of Portugal in the nineteenth century, the AP reported.

When she was a teenager, Sister Inah followed her spiritual vocation and then promised as a nun in Uruguay before returning to Brazil to teach Portuguese and mathematics.

When Sister Inah turned 110, she received an apostolic blessing from Pope Francis, who died on April 21 at 88. He believed that Bone had the second oldest nun after Sister André, a French nun Whoo lived through Zazzazza. She died at 118 in 2023.

The faith and health of sister Inah were not her only lasting distinctions. It was also known for its loyalty to Soccer Team Sport Club International in Porto Alegre, known as Inter, founded in 1909, the year after its birth.

For his birthdays, patches and scarves of the team were regularly put on and t -shirts were presented. The team paid tribute to social networks.

With the death of sister Inah, Longeviquest recognized Ethel Caterham, a British woman from Surrey, England, as the oldest person in the world.

So how did Sister Inah 116 reach? His Catholic faith, he told the AP

“I am young, beautiful and friendly,” he said, “all the very good and positive qualities that you also have.”

Jonathan Wolfe Contributed reports.