In this file photo taken on February 10, 2021 Sister Andre, Lucile Randon in the registry of birth, prays in a wheelchair, on the eve of her 117th birthday, in an EHPAD (Housing Establishment for Dependant Elderly People) in Toulon, southern France, where she has been living since 2009. (Photo by Nicolas Tucat / AFP)
PARIS: French nun Sister Andre, the world's oldest person, passed away at 118 in France, her retirement home told Reuters on Tuesday.
Lucile Randon, who took the name of Sister Andre when she joined a Catholic charitable order in 1944, had survived COVID last year.
She was born on February 11, 1904, and was the world's oldest living person according to the Gerontology Research Group's (GRG) World Supercentenarian Rankings List.
