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   Brazilian nun who was the world’s oldest person has died at 116   
      
   By  ASSOCIATED PRESS   
   Updated 1:56 PM EDT, May 1, 2025   
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   SAO PAULO (AP) — Sister Inah Canabarro, a Brazilian nun and teacher who   
   was the world’s oldest person, died on Wednesday just weeks short of   
   turning 117, her religious congregation said.   
      
   Canabarro died at home of natural causes, said her Teresian nun   
   congregation, the Company of Saint Teresa of Jesus. She was confirmed in   
   January as the world’s oldest person by LongeviQuest, an organization that   
   tracks supercentenarians around the globe.   
      
   She would have turned 117 on May 27. According to LongeviQuest, the   
   world’s oldest person is now Ethel Caterham, a 115-year-old British woman.   
      
   Canabarro said her Catholic faith was the key to her longevity, in a video   
   taken by LongeviQuest in February 2024. The smiling Canabarro can be seen   
   cracking jokes, sharing miniature paintings she used to make of wild   
   flowers and reciting the Hail Mary prayer.   
      
   “I’m young, pretty and friendly — all very good, positive qualities that   
   you have too,” the Teresian nun told the visitors to her retirement home   
   in the southern Brazilian city of Porto Alegre.   
      
   As a child, Sister Inah Canabarro was so skinny that many people didn’t   
   think she would survive into adulthood, Cleber Canabarro, her 84-year-old   
   nephew, told The Associated Press in January,   
      
   Her great-grandfather was a famed Brazilian general who took up arms   
   during the turbulent period following Brazil’s independence from Portugal   
   in the 19th century.   
      
      
   She took up religious work while she was a teenager and spent two years in   
   Montevideo, Uruguay, before moving to Rio de Janeiro and eventually   
   settling in her home state of Rio Grande do Sul. A lifelong teacher, among   
   her former students was Gen. Joao Figueiredo, the last of the military   
   dictators who governed Brazil between 1964 and 1985. She was also the   
   beloved creator of two marching bands at schools in sister cities   
   straddling the border between Uruguay and Brazil.   
      
   For her 110th birthday, she was honored by Pope Francis. She was the   
   second oldest nun ever documented, after Lucile Randon, who was the   
   world’s oldest person until her death in 2023 at the age of 118.   
      
   Canabarro took the title of the oldest living person following the death   
   of Japan’s Tomiko Itooka in December, according to LongeviQuest. She   
   ranked as the 20th oldest documented person to have ever lived, a list   
   topped by Frenchwoman Jeanne Calment, who died in 1997 at the age of 122,   
   according to LongeviQuest.   
      
   “Her long and meaningful life touched many, and her legacy as a devoted   
   educator, religious sister, and a supercentenarian will be remembered with   
   great admiration,” LongeviQuest said in a statement.   
      
   The wake for Canabarro will take place on Thursday in Porto Alegre, the   
   capital of southern state of Rio Grande do Sul, her order said.   
      
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