{"id":34899,"date":"2020-02-12T09:04:36","date_gmt":"2020-02-12T16:04:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/publiccatholic\/?p=34899"},"modified":"2024-11-14T07:19:27","modified_gmt":"2024-11-14T14:19:27","slug":"worlds-oldest-nun-reaches-116","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/publiccatholic\/2020\/02\/worlds-oldest-nun-reaches-116\/","title":{"rendered":"World&#8217;s Oldest Nun Reaches 116"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p><figure id=\"attachment_31033\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-31033\" style=\"width: 640px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/254\/2016\/12\/happy-birthday.jpg\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-31033\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/254\/2016\/12\/happy-birthday.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"451\"><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-31033\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo Source: Flickr Craative Commons by Arghya Banik https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/arghyabanik\/<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><p>Daughter of Charity Sister Andr\u00e9 Randon turned 116 yesterday.<\/p>\n<p>From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.churchpop.com\/the-worlds-oldest-nun-celebrates-116th-birthday-heres-her-secret-to-happiness\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Church Pop<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p>Daughter of Charity Sister Andr\u00e9 Randon turned 116 in February.<\/p>\n<p>She is the oldest person in Europe and the second-oldest person in the world. 117-year-old Japanese woman Kane Tanaka is the only person to surpass her in age.<\/p>\n<p>Born Lucile Randon on Feb. 11, 1904, Sr. Andr\u00e9 converted to Catholicism at age 19. At age 25, she began caring for elderly and orphans at a French hospital. She later entered the Daughters of Charity at age 40.<\/p>\n<p>Although she joined the convent late in life, her vocation has lasted for <strong>76 years!\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<h4>Sr. Andre\u2019s Secret<\/h4>\n<p>Her secret recipe for happiness?<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u201cPray and drink a cup of chocolate every day.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>She <a href=\"https:\/\/famvin.org\/en\/2019\/08\/27\/sister-andre-dc-the-oldest-person-in-europe-second-oldest-worldwide-the-oldest-religious\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">also said<\/a> her<strong> \u201cdaily happiness is being able to go and pray.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Daughter of Charity Sister Andr\u00e9 Randon turned 116 yesterday. From Church Pop: Daughter of Charity Sister Andr\u00e9 Randon turned 116 in February. She is the oldest person in Europe and the second-oldest person in the world. 117-year-old Japanese woman Kane Tanaka is the only person to surpass her in age. Born Lucile Randon on Feb. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1155,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34899","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-catholic","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>World&#039;s Oldest Nun Reaches 116<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Daughter of Charity Sister Andr\u00e9 Randon turned 116 yesterday. From Church Pop: Daughter of Charity Sister Andr\u00e9 Randon turned 116 in February. 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