It was the second oldest nun in history. The Brazilian nun Inah Canabarro Lucas died on Wednesday April 30, 2025, at the age of 116 and 326 days, announced the Congregation of the Theresian sisters in which she lived in the city of Porto Alegre. She had become the oldest person in the world in January, after the death of La Japonae Tomiko to Raokaalso 116 years old. Born June 8, 1908, in the city of Saint-François d’Assise, in the south of the country, the Brazilian nun, which knew the two world wars, had started its religious initiation at the age of sixteen. The title of “dean of humanity” returns today to Ethel Caterham, who lives in Southeast of Englandin Surrey. She is 115 years old and 252 days old, according to the gerontology research group in the United States (GRG) and Longeviquet.
The new dean of humanity was born on August 21, 1909, and was also the last British born before 1910, thus becoming the last surviving subject of King Edouard VII. The Englishwoman was born in the county of Hampshire, and has traveled a lot in her long life. Ethel Caterham was indeed employed as an au pair in a family of soldiers in India when she was 18, reports the BBC, that is to say in the late 1920s. She returned to the United Kingdom in the early 1930s, and married Norman Caterham. Her husband named Lieutenant-Colonel, the couple was parked in Hong Kongwhere Ethel Caterham (…)
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