{"id":23179,"date":"2025-05-04T07:30:31","date_gmt":"2025-05-04T07:30:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/brazilian-nun-who-was-worlds-oldest-person-dies-at-116\/"},"modified":"2025-05-04T07:30:31","modified_gmt":"2025-05-04T07:30:31","slug":"brazilian-nun-who-was-worlds-oldest-person-dies-at-116","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/brazilian-nun-who-was-worlds-oldest-person-dies-at-116\/","title":{"rendered":"Brazilian Nun Who Was World\u2019s Oldest Person Dies at 116"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- ItShrt World News -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"1882483372\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-0\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Sister Inah Canabarro Lucas, a soccer-loving nun from Brazil who was believed to be the oldest person in the world and whose longevity had been celebrated by Pope Francis, died on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">She was 116 years old and would have turned 117 in a few more weeks, according to her religious congregation, the Irm\u00e3s Teresianas Brasil, which translates as \u201cTeresian Sisters Brazil.\u201d She had been living in a retirement home in the city of Porto Alegre in southern Brazil.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\"><a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/irmasteresianas\/posts\/pfbid0suqD81yqEN43qFGzHHAwJmm8ejJbYTrMLRbq1TujYiuhxuUCiWmTdqG2255cQb1Cl\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">In a social media post<\/a>, her congregation gave thanks for her life of service and dedication, and asked the Lord to \u201cwelcome her into his infinite love.\u201d <\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">While her sight and hearing diminished toward the end of her life, she avoided surgery until a cataract procedure when she was 106, Sister Rita Fernandes Barbosa, the congregation\u2019s provincial coordinator, <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/g1.globo.com\/rs\/rio-grande-do-sul\/noticia\/2025\/05\/01\/religiosa-colorada-de-coracao-e-abencoada-pelo-papa-saiba-quem-era-a-pessoa-mais-velha-do-mundo-que-morreu-aos-116-anos.ghtml\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">told the Brazilian television station RBS TV<\/a> earlier this year.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-1\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">In January, <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.guinnessworldrecords.com\/news\/2025\/1\/oldest-nun-inah-canabarro-lucas-who-was-blessed-by-the-pope-becomes-worlds-oldest-person\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Guinness World Records declared Sister Inah the world\u2019s oldest living person<\/a> after the death of <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/01\/04\/world\/asia\/oldest-person-dies-japan.html\" title=\"\">Tomiko Itooka<\/a>, a Japanese woman who was born before the start of World War I and the sinking of the Titanic. She was also 116.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">In the year Sister Inah was born, the Model T was introduced by Henry Ford; insulin had not yet been discovered; and the world\u2019s first demonstration of a television was still several years away.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Sister Inah\u2019s exact birthday has been a source of debate and confusion. A registry had listed it as June 8, 1908, the date recognized by Guinness World Records and <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/longeviquest.com\/2025\/04\/inah-canabarro-lucas-worlds-oldest-person-dies-at-116\/\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">LongeviQuest<\/a>, which keeps a database of supercentenarians, people who are 110 or older.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">But her family and friends have said that Sister Inah was born on May 27, 1908, in S\u00e3o Francisco de Assis in the state of Rio Grande do Sul. They said that her parents had traveled a great distance and several days to register her birth.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">As a child, she was so thin that her parents feared she would not survive, her nephew, Cleber Canabarro, who is in his 80s, <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/brazil-nun-oldest-person-world-9428ea98d6d2acb0e234a4390404990b\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">told The Associated Press<\/a> in January. Her great-grandfather was a well-known general who had taken up arms during the turbulent period after Brazil declared independence from Portugal in the 19th century, The A.P. reported.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-2\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">As a teenager, Sister Inah followed her spiritual calling and then took her vows as a nun in Uruguay before returning to Brazil to teach Portuguese and math.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">When Sister Inah turned 110, <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cathstan.org\/us-world\/at-age-116-religious-sister-from-brazil-is-the-oldest-person-on-the-planet\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">she received an apostolic blessing<\/a> from Pope Francis, <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/04\/21\/world\/europe\/pope-francis-dead.html\" title=\"\">who died<\/a> on April 21 at 88. She was believed to have been the second-oldest nun after Sister Andr\u00e9, a French nun who lived through two world wars and the 1918 influenza pandemic and survived Covid-19. She <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2023\/01\/18\/world\/europe\/sister-andre-worlds-oldest-person-118-france.html\" title=\"\">died at 118<\/a> in 2023.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Sister Inah\u2019s faith and health were not her only enduring distinctions. She was also known for her allegiance to the soccer team Sport Club Internacional in Porto Alegre, known as Inter, which was founded in 1909, the year after her birth.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">For her milestone birthdays, she regularly donned team patches and scarves and was presented with jerseys. <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/SCInternacional\/status\/1917704841960591448\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">The team paid tribute<\/a> to her on social media.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">With Sister Inah\u2019s death, LongeviQuest recognized Ethel Caterham, a British woman from Surrey, England, as <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/longeviquest.com\/2025\/04\/uks-ethel-caterham-115-becomes-worlds-oldest-living-person\/\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">the oldest person in the world<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-3\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">So how did Sister Inah reach 116? Her Catholic faith, she told The Associated Press.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cI\u2019m young, pretty and friendly,\u201d she said, \u201call very good, positive qualities that you have, too.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-798hid etfikam0\">Jonathan Wolfe<!-- --> contributed reporting.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- ItShrt World News -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"1882483372\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<br \/><a 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