Brazilian nun Inah Canabarro Lucas, recognized as the world’s oldest living person, has d!ed at the age of 116. Her d3ath was confirmed Wednesday by the Congregation of Teresian Sisters in Porto Alegre, who praised her life of “dedication and devotion.”
Born on June 8, 1908, Canabarro became the world’s oldest person earlier this year following the death of Japan’s Tomiko Itooka, also aged 116. Despite being a frail child whom many believed would not survive, Canabarro went on to live through two world wars and decades of change, becoming a nun in 1934 at the age of 26.
She often credited her extraordinary longevity to her faith. “He is the secret of life. He is the secret of everything,” she once said of God, according to longevity tracker LongeviQuest.
For her 110th birthday, she received a blessing from Pope Francis, who himself passed away last Monday at the age of 88.
Although she personally claimed to have been born on May 27, 1908, official records list her birthdate as June 8, 1908, according to the US-based Gerontology Research Group (GRG).
Canabarro was ranked as the 15th-oldest documented person in history and the second-oldest nun, after France’s Lucile Randon, who lived to 118 and died in 2023.
With her passing, the title of world’s oldest living person now goes to 115-year-old Ethel Caterham of Surrey, England.
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RIP
She has gone to rest