French nun speaks after becoming oldest known person in the world

Sister Andre said the title, which she took after the death of a Japanese woman one year her senior, was both a source of pride and a disaster

118 year-old French catholic nun Andre Randon speaks to the press at the Saint-Catherine-Laboure nursing home where she lives in Toulon, southern France, on April 26, 2022, after becoming the world's oldest known person following the death announced the day before of a Japanese woman one year her senior. - Lucile Randon, known as Sister Andre, was born in southern France on February 11, 1904, when World War I was still a decade away. (Photo by CHRISTOPHE SIMON / AFP)

Joshua Longmore

Apr 26, 2022

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