Frenchwoman Lucille Rendon, the oldest person in the world, died at the age of 118 years and 340 days, reports the international press, cited by News.ro.

Lucille Rendon, a French nun known as Sister Andre, in 2022 when she became the age dean of the planetPhoto: Daniel Cole/AP/Profimedia

She died in her sleep, on the night from Monday to Tuesday.

“He died at two in the morning. There is great sadness, but she wanted it, it was her desire to join her beloved brother. It’s a release for her,” said David Tavella, head of communications at the Sainte-Catherine-Labouré nursing home in Toulon.

Rendon, known as Sister Andre, was born in the south of France on February 11, 1904, a decade before the First World War.

She became the world’s oldest person last April when Kane Tanaka of Japan died at the age of 119.

“People say that work kills, for me work kept me alive, I continued to work until I was 108,” said a Catholic nun a few years ago.

She spent the last 30 years of her life in the Sainte-Catherine-Labour nursing home in Toulon.

After a few years, he had a certain fatigue and wanted to “get away from this business.” But “merciful God does not hear me,” she said in January 2022.

In 2021, she even survived the Covid-19 infection, becoming a symbol of hope for people all over the world.

Another French woman, Jeanne Calman, who died in 1997 at the age of 122 in Arles, holds the record for the oldest person who ever lived.

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