Europe's oldest person, French nun Sister Andre, turned 117 in February.
Sister André has lived through the 1918 flu pandemic, two world wars and “many sad events,” she once said. As Europe’s oldest known person, she turned 117 on Thursday, and has now accomplished another feat:
defeating the coronavirus, with barely any complication.
She recently survived covid and when asked if she was scared she replied, “No, I wasn’t scared because I wasn’t scared to die.”
Sister André has lived through the 1918 flu pandemic, two world wars and “many sad events,” she once said. As Europe’s oldest known person, she turned 117 on Thursday, and has now accomplished another feat:
defeating the coronavirus, with barely any complication.
She recently survived covid and when asked if she was scared she replied, “No, I wasn’t scared because I wasn’t scared to die.”