The world’s oldest person, Nun Inah Cannabarro Lucas in Brazil, died at 116

• Brazilian Nun Inah Cannabarro Lucas, the world’s oldest person, died on April 30 at the age of 116
• Lucas was recognized by Guinness World Records after the death of 116-year-old Tomiko Itooka, the former title holder
• Lucas previously attributed his life to God and said, “He is the secret of life. He is the secret of all”

Inah Cannabarro LucasThe Brazilian nun, who was officially recognized as the world’s oldest person in January, has died. She was 116.

Colégio Santa Teresa in Brazil, where Npr Reported Lucas lived her last days, announced that she died on Wednesday, April 30 – left “a legacy that exceeds the time.”

In an Instagram statement translated from Portuguese, Lucas called her “a symbol of wisdom, faith and unconditional love for others.”

“Her Legacy Will Live On In The History of the Santa Teresa Schools, Where She Passe Through, Profoundly Touching The Lives of Countless Generation With Her Serene Presence, Welcoming Gaze, and Tireless Dedication To Education. “The Teresian family gives goodbye with a grateful heart, honored to have had SR. Inah as an example of commitment and assignments.”

“May her memory continue to inspire us on the road for brotherhood and love that she knew how to follow so well 💙,” the statement concluded.

Guinness World Records first explained that Lucas was the world’s oldest living person on January 4, days after the death of the former oldest living person Tomiko to Raokawhich was 116 years old when she died on December 29 in Japan. Itooka contained the title of both the oldest living person and the oldest living woman since August 2024.

Lucas told me earlier The lung that she attributed to her life to God. “He’s the secret of life. He’s the secret of everything,” she said.

The oldest person ever, according to GuinnessWas Jeanne Louise Calment of France, who died in August 1997 at 122 years and 164 days old, which Guinness called the “biggest full authenticated age that all people have ever lived.”

With regard to Lucas, the nun was born on June 8, 1908 in São Francisco de Assis in Rio Grande Do Sul, Brazil, Per Guinness World Records – at a time when Theodore Roosevelt was the US president and movies were still silent, CNN noted.

As previously reported, she began her studies at Santa Teresa de Jesus boarding school in Santana Do Livramento, Rio Grande Do Sul, Brazil in 1928. Lucas eventually moved to Uruguay and confirmed in the Catholic Church in 1930. 26 years old, before she began working as a teacher in the early 1940s.

In the decades that followed, she worked in Itaqui, later as a professor and secretary in Santana de Livramento and eventually returned to Itaqui to work as a teacher. Finally, Lucas worked in the provincial house in Porto Alegre in February 1980, Per Longeviquest.

He retired in 1995 and honored with an apostolic blessing from Pope Francis For its 110th birthday 2018, according to Guinness.

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Luca’s relatives told Brazilian TV, Per BBCThat she “liked to stand up, eat and pray and sleep at the same time every day”, as a colleague nun, sister Terezinha Aragon, called her “very grateful” and “good humorous.”

She previously described herself as a lifelong football fan and followers of Sport Club International. The club praised her X After her death. “We say goodbye to sister, celebrate her legacy of spirituality and compassion and want to strengthen her friends and family,” the club wrote in a translated post.

Ethel Caterham in the UK is now the world’s oldest living person, according to Guinness. She is 115 years and 252 days old.