After the death of the 116-year-old Japanese woman Tomiko Itoka, the title of the oldest person in the world passed to the nun from Brazil, Inach Canabarro Lucas. Her age is 116 years and 210 days, officially confirmed representatives of the Guinness Book of Records. In addition, she was recognized as the oldest nun in the world.
Inach Canabarro Lucas was born on June 8, 1908 in the city of San Francisco de Asis, Brazil. As a child, she was so thin that there were doubts about her life expectancy. Inah received her education in a boarding school, after which she moved to Uruguay, where she took monastic vows at the age of 16.
She later returned to Brazil, becoming a teacher of Portuguese and mathematics in Rio de Janeiro. During her career, she worked in various cities of the country, until in 1980 she received a position in Porto Alegre. In 2018, on its 110th anniversary, Inach received an apostolic blessing from Pope Francis.
She is considered the second oldest nun in history after Lucille Rendon, who lived to be 118 years old. Inach Canabarro Lucas is probably the last living person born in 1908, and one of the few born in the early years of the 20th century.
