The oldest person on the planet, Brazilian nun Inah Canabarro Lucas, passed away at the age of 116 years and 326 days, reports the BBC, citing the religious community in Porto Alegre to which she belonged.
Photo: grg-supercentenarians.org
According to the American Gerontology Research Group (GRG) and the LongeviQuest database, after Lucas's death, the title of supercentenarian passed to Ethel Caterham from the English county of Surrey, who turned 115 last August.
Inah Canabarro Lucas became the oldest person in the world in January after the death of Japanese woman Tomiko Itooka — she was also 116 years old. LongeviQuest reports that the nun received a blessing from Pope Francis on her 110th birthday.
Although Lucas herself claimed her birth date was May 27, 1908, documents show she was born on June 8, said GRG head Robert Young to AFP. According to the Gerontology Research Group, Inah Canabarro Lucas was born in the southern Brazilian state of Rio Grande do Sul.
She was the great-granddaughter of Brazilian General David Canabarro, and her father died in battle in 1923. In her childhood, Lucas was very thin, which even caused concerns for her life, GRG writes.
She studied at a boarding school, moved to Montevideo, the capital of Uruguay, in 1928, where she became a nun, and two years later returned to Brazil and began teaching Portuguese and mathematics at a school in Rio de Janeiro.
In January 2021, at the age of 112, Lucas received her first dose of the coronavirus vaccine, and in October 2022, while in the hospital, she herself contracted COVID-19.
A month later, she recovered, becoming one of the oldest people on the planet to survive the illness.
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наконт майго папярэдняга каментара... проста неяк чытала, што згодна даследванняў, незамужнія жанчыны жывуць даўжэй, чым замужнія. а ў мужчын наадварот - жанатыя жывуць даўжэй )