Sister Andre - CathNews New Zealand https://cathnews.co.nz Catholic News New Zealand Thu, 11 Feb 2021 01:25:27 +0000 en-NZ hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.1 https://cathnews.co.nz/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/cropped-cathnewsfavicon-32x32.jpg Sister Andre - CathNews New Zealand https://cathnews.co.nz 32 32 70145804 116-year-old French nun survives Covid-19 https://cathnews.co.nz/2021/02/11/europe-oldest-person/ Thu, 11 Feb 2021 06:50:04 +0000 https://cathnews.co.nz/?p=133297 Europe's oldest person, French nun Sister Andre, has survived Covid-19 and will celebrate her 117th birthday tomorrow, her caregivers said. Lucile Randon, who took the name of Sister Andre when she joined a Catholic charitable order in 1944, tested positive for coronavirus in her retirement home in Toulon, southern France, on 16 January. She was Read more

116-year-old French nun survives Covid-19... Read more]]> Europe's oldest person, French nun Sister Andre, has survived Covid-19 and will celebrate her 117th birthday tomorrow, her caregivers said.

Lucile Randon, who took the name of Sister Andre when she joined a Catholic charitable order in 1944, tested positive for coronavirus in her retirement home in Toulon, southern France, on 16 January.

She was isolated from other residents, but displayed no symptoms.

Asked if she was scared to have the virus, Sr Andre told France's BFM television: "No, I wasn't scared because I wasn't scared to die.

"I'm happy to be with you, but I would wish to be somewhere else - join my big brother and my grandfather and my grandmother."

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