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The older person in the world, Sister Inah Canabarro Lucas died at the age of 116, announced his order on Wednesday.
According to Guinness World World, the
When Canabarro was born on June 8, 1908, according to GWR, Theodore Roosevelt was still the American president, Penicillin had not yet been discovered and the films were still silent.
There is a dispute concerning its exact date of birth, because Cleber Canabarro, its 84 -year -old nephew, told the Associated Press that his birth was recorded two weeks late and that it was born on May 27.
She was so thin as they grow up, added Canabarro, that many doubted to survive adulthood, and even less become a centenary.
She took religious work in adolescence and has always maintained her Catholic faith was the secret of her incredibly long life. “(God) is the secret of life. He is the secret of everything,” she said, according to Longeviquet, a database that follows the life of supercentenarians. At her 110th anniversary, she received a blessing from Pope Francis.
After spending two years in Montevideo, Uruguay, Canabarro returned to Brazil and lived in Rio de Janeiro before returning to his country of origin, Rio Grande Do Sul, reported.
She spent a large part of her life as a teacher and counted General João Figueiredo, the military dictator who ruled Brazil from 1979 to 1985, among his former students.
Canabarro was a fan of his local football club, Sport Club Internacional (Inter), who celebrated his birthday each year. The club published a statement on Wednesday paying tribute to its “kindness, faith and love”.
After the death of Canabarro, the alarm-grandmother in English Ethel Caterham became the oldest person in the world, at 115 and 252 days, according to GWR.
Caterham would be the last living person born in 1909 and is the last British person born before 1913, added GWR.
Canabarro was the second oldest Brazilian and 15th older of all time, according to Longeviquet. The title of the oldest ever recorded belongs to Jeanne Louise Calment. Born February 21, 1875, her life extends over 122 years and 164 days, according to GWR.
