Europe’s Oldest Woman, A French Nun Turns 117 After Surviving Covid

Posted by: Kyeyune Andrew Jonathan in Life Style February 11, 2021

Europe’s oldest woman, also a nun from France, Sister Andre, just made 117 today after her battle with covid-19 last month. To add to the Covid battle, she also lived through two world wars and survived them! She is also Europe’s oldest person.

Born on February 11, 1904, Sister Andre said she didn’t realize she had caught the coronavirus. It infected 81 residents of her retirement home in the southeast city of Toulon, killing 10 of them.

‘’I’m told that I got it. I was very tired, it’s true, but I didn’t realize it,’’ she told reporters ahead of her birthday.

David Tavella, a spokesman for the Sainte-Catherine-Laboure nursing home said she had experienced triple confinement in her room. During this confinement, Sister Andre did not receive any visitors.

‘’So her birthday, it reinvigorates us,’’ he added following the deadly outbreak.

The French nun said she had no plans to do anything special for her 117th, but the home plans a celebration for her.

There will be a special mass at the home which has a dozen nuns. The chef is also preparing a feast of foie gras, capon fillet with porcini mushrooms, and Sister Andre’s favorite dessert; baked Alaska, washed down with a glass of port.

She says her favorite food is lobster and she enjoys a glass of wine. Europe’s oldest woman said she drinks a glass every day.

Sister Andre converted to Catholicism at the age of 26. She then joined the Daughters of Charity order of nuns at a relatively late age of 41. She got assigned to a hospital in Vichy where she worked for 31 years. Thereafter spending 30 years in a retirement home in the French Alps before moving to Toulon.

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