Sao Paulo – Sao Paulo (AP) – Sister Inah Canabarro, a Brazilian nun and teacher who was the oldest person in the world, died on Wednesday a few weeks from 117, said her religious congregation.
Canabarro died at the Maison des Causes Natlelles, said her Congregation of Térésienne, the company of Saint Teresa of Jesus. It was confirmed in January as the oldest person in the world by Longeviquet, an organization that follows supercentenarians around the world.
She would have been 117 years old on May 27. According to Longeviquet, the oldest person in the world is now Ethel Caterham, a 115 -year -old British woman.
Canabarro said that his Catholic faith was the key to his longevity, in a video taken by Longeviquet in February 2024. The smiling canabarro can be seen in the process of making jokes, sharing miniature paintings that she made wild flowers and reciting Mary’s hail prayer.
“I am young, pretty and friendly – all very good and good positive qualities that you also have,” the Térésienne nun to visitors of her retirement home in the Brazilian city in the south of Porto Alegre.
As a child, Sister Inah Canabarro was so thin that many people did not think that she would survive adulthood, her 84 -year -old nephew told Cleber Canabarro at the Associated Press in January,
His great-grandfather was a famous Brazilian general who took up arms during the turbulent period following the independence of Brazil in Portugal in the 19th century.
She took religious work when she was a teenager and spent two years in Montevideo, Uruguay, before moving to Rio de Janeiro and finally settled in her original state, Rio Grande Do Sul. A life teacher, among her former students, was General Joao Figueiredo, the last of the military dictators who governed Brazil between 1964 and 1985. She was also the beloved designer of two walking bands in the schools of sisters cities straddling the border between Uruguay and Brazil.
For her 110th anniversary, she was honored by Pope Francis. She was the second oldest nun ever documented, after Lucile Randon, who was the oldest person in the world until her death in 2023 at the age of 118.
According to Longeviquet, Canabarro won the title of the living person after the death of Tomiko Itoka in Japan in December. She ranked as the 20th older person to live, a list at the head of French Jeanne Calment, who died in 1997 at the age of 122, according to Longeviquet.
“His long and significant life has touched a lot, and his heritage as a dedicated educator, a religious sister and supercintenary will remain in the memories with great admiration,” said Longeviquet in a press release.
The wake of Canabarro will take place Thursday in Porto Alegre, the capital of the southern state of Rio Grande Do Sul, said its order.
