A Brazilian nun 116 yearswhich is called Inah Canabarro Lucas and resides in the state of Rio Grande do Sul, became the person oldest in the world after the death of the Japanese Tomiko Itooka, who was the same age, which occurred this Saturday.
Canabarro Lucas, who was born on June 8, 1908 in Saint Francis of Assisilives in a Catholic convent of the Congregation of the Teresian Sisters of Brazil, located in the city of Porto Alegre.
According to the LongeviQuest organization, which specializes in providing information about the oldest people in the world, the woman had six siblings and began her religious path at the age of 16 at the Santa Teresa de Jesús boarding school, in Santana do Livramento. After, She moved to Uruguay and became a nun.
Meanwhile, the newspaper Or Globe noted that he returned to Brazil in 1930 to teach Portuguese and mathematics at a school located in Rio de Janeiro and then headed back to Santana do Livramentowhere he continued as a teacher.
On the other hand, one of Canabarro Lucas’s nephews, called Cleber Vieira Canabarro Lucasexpressed in dialogue with different Brazilian media that her nun aunt undergoes routine medical studies and that to achieve long longevity one must have “good humor, optimism, kindness and spirituality.”
Tomiko Itooka, the oldest woman in the world, has died
The recognition for Inah Canabarro Lucas comes hours after the death of Tomiko Itooka, who was the oldest person in the world according to Guinness World Records. The Japanese woman died on Saturday at the age of 116, an Ashiya city official reported on Saturday.
Yoshitsugu Nagata, senior policy official, said Itooka died on December 29 at a residence in Ashiya, Hyogo prefecture, central Japan.
Itooka, who loved bananas and a Japanese yogurt-flavored drink called Calpis, was born on May 23, 1908. Last year he became the oldest person after the death of 117-year-old Maria Branyas, according to the Gerontological Research Group.
When they told him that he topped the World List of Supercentenarians, he simply replied: “Thank you.”
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