Sister Inah Canabarro Lucas dies on 116

The oldest person in the world, the Brazilian non -sister Inah Canabarro Lucas, died at the age of 116.

Born on 8 June 1908 in the southern Brazilian state of Rio Grande do Sul, Inah Canabarro Lucas became a Catholic nun in her early 20s.

Her family said she always celebrated her birthday with a cake in the form of the stadium of her beloved Sport Club Internacional – Porto Alegre’s football team.

Sister Inah, who was blessed by Pope Francis in 2018, resigned her lifespan and said that “he (God) is the secret of life.” The title of the oldest living person is now moving to the 115-year-old Ethel Caterham from Surrey in England.

Sister Inah’s cousin said that the 116-year-old had not had a disease, but her body “had stopped gradually” worked. She died in the city of Porto Alegre in a house of the Teresian sisters, the religious community of which she was a part.

An avid football fan, she had celebrated her 116th birthday in the scarf of her favorite team.

She also had various internacional shirts and even had a collection of pillows decorated with the team’s logo, according to media reports.

Sport Club Internacional posted a message from condolence on XSaying that it had learned “with enormous sorrow of her death” and celebrated her life, which it was based on kindness, faith and love of the football club.

Sister Rita Fernandes Barbosa, a coordinator in the religious house where sister Inah lived, told RBS TV that the 116-year-old had enjoyed good health most of her life.

Sister Rita said the NON had not had any operations until she underwent a cataract operation of 106 years.

Her family said that towards the end of her life she could not hear or see very well, but that she enjoyed holding on to a routine.

“She liked to get up, eating and praying and sleeping every day at the same time,” her family members told Brazilian TV.

A colleague Teresian Non said that sister Inah “never complained”.

“She is very grateful and well mourn,” Sister Terezinha Aragon told Brazilian TV in January, when sister Inah became the oldest person in the world after the death of the previous holder of the title, the Japanese wife Tomiko Itooka at the age of 116.

Born on 8 June 1908, Sister Inah had a religious calling from the start of her life and joined a religious boarding school at the age of 16 -.

She lived in the Uruguayan capital, Montevideo, a while before she made her vows, but returned to Brazil in 1930, where she taught Portuguese and mathematics at a school in Rio.

Sister Rita brought the lifetime of the 116-year-old to discipline.

“Discipline in her work and in her life she always worked a lot and was always very social and hospitable.”