French nun who beat COVID rings in 117th birthday with wine, birthday feast
Jami Ganz
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French nun who beat COVID rings in 117th birthday with wine, birthday feast
A French nun who recently beat COVID and is believed to be the second-oldest person alive celebrated her 117th birthday Thursday with a feast fit for a record-breaking queen, and of course, wine.
Sister André, born Lucile Randon on Feb. 11, 1904, finished off foie gras, capon with fragrant mushrooms, and her favorite treat, baked Alaska, with red wine, dubbed “one of her secrets of longevity,” David Tavella, the communications manager for her care home in Toulon, told the Associated Press.
Tavella, who was simultaneously ringing in his 43rd birthday, added that the remarkable nun had some champagne to mark the occasion, “because 117 years have to be toasted.”
A 116-year-old French nun who is believed to be the world’s second-oldest person has survived COVID-19. French media reported that Sister André tested positive for the coronavirus in mid-January in France’s southern city of Toulon.
A 116-year-old French nun who is believed to be the world’s second-oldest person has survived COVID-19. French media reported that Sister André tested positive for the coronavirus in mid-January in France’s southern city of Toulon. (David Tavella/)
Despite the ongoing coronavirus pandemic, Sister André managed to ring in her big day with her family, remotely of course, and a Mass in her honor, which left her feeling “very proud,” said Tavella.
The celebration follows Sister André's January diagnosis with COVID-19, which she didn’t even realize she’d contracted because she miraculously exhibited so few symptoms.
“When the whole world suddenly started talking about this story, I understood that Sister André was a bit like an Olympic flame on a ‘round the world tour that people want to grab hold of,” said Tavella, noting, “We all need a bit of hope at the moment.”
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A giant land art painting, entitled "Beyond Crisis," by Swiss French artist Saype can be seen in the alpine resort of Leysin, Switzerland on Friday, April 24, 2020. The artwork covering 3000 square meters was produced with biodegradable paints made from natural pigments such as coal and chalk. The artist aims to send a message of hope and positivity to the world in the difficult times of the COVID-19 pandemic.
City administration helpers hand out face masks in Dresden, eastern Germany, on Monday, April 20, 2020. Saxony becomes first German state to make wearing a face mask mandatory. Starting at Monday, wearing a mouth and nose protection will be mandatory in shops, public transportation and supermarkets.
People wearing protective masks queue up to go in a garden store in Munich, Germany, on Monday, April 20, 2020. The German government has moved to restrict freedom of movement for people, in an effort to slow the onset of the COVID-19 coronavirus.
Health workers hold a minute of silence to remember Joaquin Diaz, the hospital's chief of surgery who died of COVID-19, at La Paz hospital in Madrid, Spain, on Monday, April 20, 2020. The Spanish government is starting to relax its confinement measures due to the Covid-19 coronavirus outbreak, trying to re-activate the economy after a two-week freeze and allowing children under 12 years-old to venture out to the streets for brief periods from next week.
Emergency workers wearing full protective suits transport a patient to an ambulance at the Severo Ochoa Hospital in Leganes, Spain, Saturday, April 18, 2020. Spain has eased this week the conditions of Europe's strictest lockdown, allowing manufacturing, construction and other nonessential activity in an attempt to cushion the economic impact of the coronavirus pandemic.
NHS staff applaud outside the Chelsea and Westminster Hospital in London during the weekly "Clap for our Carers", Thursday, April 16, 2020. The applause takes place across Britain every Thursday at 8pm local time to show appreciation for healthcare workers, emergency services, armed services, delivery drivers, shop workers, teachers, waste collectors, manufacturers, postal workers, cleaners, vets, engineers and all those helping people with coronavirus and keeping the country functioning while most people stay at home in the lockdown.
Firefighters hold banners thanking the NHS (National Health Service) as they take part in the weekly "clap for our carers" as they stand on Westminster Bridge in London, during the lockdown to try and stop the spread of coronavirus, Thursday, April 16, 2020.
Men wear protective masks as they walk past a display of tulips in Hyde Park as the country is in lockdown to help curb the spread of the coronavirus in London, England on Monday, April 13, 2020.
Persons in need eat lunch served at the canteen of lay Catholic Community of Sant'Egidio dedicated to social service in Rome, Italy on April 13, 2020, during the country's lockdown aimed at curbing the spread of the COVID-19 infection, caused by the novel coronavirus.
A cyclist passes graffiti as the country continues in lockdown to help curb the spread of the coronavirus in London, England on Monday, April 13, 2020.
Italian singer Andrea Bocelli performs inside an empty Duomo cathedral on Easter Sunday in Milan, Italy, April 12, 2020. Bocelli was invited by Milan's Mayor Giuseppe Sala to perform an Easter concert inside an empty Duomo due to the lockdown measures to prevent the spread of COVID-19.
A passenger sits next to empty check-in counters at Barcelona airport in Spain on Monday, April 13, 2020. Confronting both a public health emergency and long-term economic injury, Spain is cautiously re-starting some business activity to emerge from the nationwide near-total freeze that helped slow the country's grim coronavirus outbreak.
Police officers check documents of passengers on a public bus at a road block, in Rome, Italy on Monday, April 13, 2020.
Police wait outside Chequers, the country residence of Britain's Prime Minister, on April 12, 2020, in Aylesbury, England. British Prime Minister Boris Johnson was discharged from hospital today a week after being admitted for treatment for coronavirus, COVID-19 and spending three days in intensive care. A spokesman said that "on the advice of his medical team, the PM will not be immediately returning to work" and will now head to his official country residence to rest and recuperate.
In this handout photo issued by 10 Downing Street, Britain's Prime Minister Boris Johnson speaks praising NHS staff in a video message after he was discharged from hospital a week after being admitted with persistent coronavirus symptoms in London on Sunday, April 12, 2020. British Prime Minister Boris Johnson said he did not have the words to properly thank the staff at NHS for “saving my life.” He lauded two nurses Johnson said stood by his bedside for 48 hours “when things could have gone either way.”
People stand in long lines waiting to enter at the Esselunga supermarket in San Donato, in the outskirts of Milan, Italy, on Saturday, April 11.
Police officers on horses check documents as they patrol the street during a nationwide confinement to counter COVID-19 in the coastal town of Cancale, western France on Saturday, April 11, 2020.
A police officer asks members of the public to leave the beach on April 10, 2020, in Brighton, United Kingdom. The Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic has spread to many countries across the world, claiming almost 97,000 lives and infecting over 1 million people.
A few people walk on a street nearly empty of traffic in downtown Lisbon, Portugal on Friday, April 10, 2020.
People watch from a balcony as Carlos Carvalho, a worker with the municipal urban hygiene department, sprays disinfectant against new coronavirus on a recycling point in Lisbon, Portugal on Thursday night, April 9, 2020.
A sign thanking NHS staff and key workers is displayed outside The Westbourne pub in Bournemouth, south England as the UK continues in lockdown to help curb the spread of the coronavirus Wednesday April 1, 2020.
A police officer patrolling on a motorbike telling people who were sitting or laying in the sun to go home, passes people wearing face masks on Primrose Hill in London, to stop the spread of coronavirus and keep the park open for people observing the British government's guidance of social distancing, only using parks for dog walking, one form of exercise a day, like a run, walk, or cycle alone or with members of the same household, Sunday, April 5, 2020.
A policewoman wears a mask to protect herself against the spread of the new coronavirus, left, checks the special permission of a residence at the garden of the Eiffel Tower in Paris, Monday, April 6, 2020.
A commuter wears a mask to protect against the spread of the coronavirus reads a book as she sits in a train in Saint Cloud, west of Paris, Tuesday, April 7, 2020.
Aid workers from the Spanish NGO Open Arms carry out coronavirus detection tests on the elderly at a nursing home in Barcelona, Spain on Wednesday April 1, 2020.The initiative is part of a clinical trial led by doctors Oriol Mitja and Bonaventura Clotet, from the Lluita Foundation against AIDS and the Germans Trias Hospital, focused on cutting down virus transmission. Spain has seen Thursday a new record in virus-related fatalities that came as the country is seeing the growth of contagion waning, health ministry data showed placing Spain neck to neck with Italy, the country that saw the worst outbreak in Europe.
Ambulance staff at the ExCel Center in London, Thursday, April 2, 2020, that is being turned into a 4000 bed temporary hospital know as NHS Nightingale to help deal with some of the coronavirus outbreak victims in London.
Two employees of CHAO coffins work at the company warehouse in Valdemoro, outskirts of Madrid, Spain, Friday, April 3, 2020.
An ambulance pars in front of the Signal Iduna Park, Germany's biggest stadium of Bundesliga soccer club Borussia Dortmund, where a temporary coronavirus treatment center opened today in Dortmund, Germany, Saturday, April 4, 2020. Instead of the originally scheduled today football clash between Dortmund and Bayern, parts of the stadium were turned into a medical center for outpatient treatment and consultation.
Messages in support of the NHS are seen at the windows of the DDL College, in front of St Thomas' Hospital, one of the many hospitals dealing with Coronavirus patients in London, Wednesday, April 1, 2020.
Workers wearing protective outfits sanitize a neighborhood to contain the spread of Covid-19 virus, in Rome on Saturday, March 28, 2020.
A worker wearing protective gear as a precautionary measure against coronavirus, sprays disinfectant, during a nationwide confinement to control the spread of the virus, in Aubagne, southern France, on Tuesday, March 31, 2020.
A patient is taken from an ambulance outside St Thomas Hospital in London, Wednesday, April 1, 2020, the hospital is one of many treating Coronavirus patients.
A worker sprays disinfectant to sanitize Duomo square in downtown Milan, Italy, on Tuesday, March 31, 2020.
Health workers applaud as people react from their houses in support of the medical staff that are working on the COVID-19 virus outbreak at the Gregorio Maranon hospital in Madrid, Spain, on Wednesday, April 1, 2020.
Members of the Military Emergency Unit block the access to a nursing home while disinfecting areas to prevent the spread of the coronavirus COVID-19, in Pamplona, northern Spain, on Tuesday, March 31, 2020.
A member of the UME (Emergency Army Unit) wearing a protective suit to protect from the coronavirus stands next to a bus carrying patients infected with the COVID-19 waiting to be transported from Gregorio Maranon hospital to a temporary hospital set up at the IFEMA convention centre in Madrid, Spain, on Wednesday, April 1, 2020. Facing intense surges in the need for hospital ICU beds, European nations are on a hospital-building and medical worker-hiring spree. They are throwing together makeshift hospitals and shipping coronavirus patients out of overwhelmed cities.
A view of Monastiraki square, usually the most crowded area in central Athens on Wednesday, April 1, 2020. Deserted squares, padlocked parks, empty avenues where cars were once jammed bumper-to-bumper in heavy traffic. The Greek capital, like so many cities across the world, has seen its streets empty as part of a lockdown designed to stem the spread of the new coronavirus.
A worker puts on protective gear to spray disinfectant as a precautionary measure against coronavirus, during a nationwide confinement to control the spread of the virus, in Aubagne, southern France, on Tuesday, March 31, 2020.
Coffins are lined up on the floor in the San Giuseppe church in Seriate, one of the areas worst hit by coronavirus, near Bergamo, Italy, waiting to be taken to a crematory, on Thursday, March 26, 2020.
Coffins arriving from the Bergamo area, where the coronavirus infections caused many victims, are being unloaded from a military truck that transported them in the cemetery of Cinisello Balsamo, near Milan in Northern Italy, on Friday, March 27, 2020.
Hospital workers applaud those on the front lines of the COVID-19 pandemic from a balcony at the Marseille Timone hospital, in Marseille, southern France, on Tuesday, March 31, 2020.
A policeman check a runner for valid documents during a lockdown order by the Greek government to control the spread of the new coronavirus in the northern city of Thessaloniki, Greece, Tuesday, March 31, 2020. Greek authorities are banning access to a popular pedestrian waterfront area in Thessaloniki, after good weather saw people congregating despite the country's lockdown measures to prevent the spread the COVID-19.
A member of the Military Emergency Unit disinfects bins at a nursing home to prevent the spread of the coronavirus COVID-19, in Pamplona, northern Spain, on Tuesday, March 31, 2020.
Spanish soldiers unload Personal Protection Equipment donated by Turkey to help the country combat the new coronavirus outbreak, in Madrid, Spain, on Wednesday, April 1, 2020.
A member of the UME (Emergency Army Unit) wearing a protective suit to protect against coronavirus disinfects handrails at a nursing home in Madrid, Spain, on Tuesday, March 31, 2020.
A worker wearing protective gears sprays disinfectant as a precautionary measure against COVID-19 during a nationwide confinement to counter the virus, in Suresnes, outside Paris, on Tuesday, March 31, 2020.
People applaud from their houses in support of the medical staff that are working on the COVID-19 virus outbreak in Barcelona, Spain, on Sunday, March 29, 2020.
Healthcare workers assist a patience at one of the intensive care units (ICU) at German Trias i Pujol hospital in Badalona, in the Barcelona province, Spain on Friday, March 27, 2020.
Undertakers wearing protection masks to protect from the coronavirus, carry a coffin to a burial at Salvador cemetery during the coronavirus outbreak, near to Vitoria, northern Spain, on Monday, March 30, 2020.
Volunteer workers in a clothing factory manufacturing firefighting gear, make hospital gowns for medical staff to protect them from the coronavirus, in Arnedo, northern Spain, on Monday, March 30, 2020.
Volunteer workers in a clothing factory manufacturing firefighting gear, make hospital gowns for medical staff to protect them from the coronavirus, in Arnedo, northern Spain, on Monday, March 30, 2020.
Health workers react as people applaud from their houses in support of the medical staff that are working on the COVID-19 virus outbreak at the main gate of the Hospital Clinic in Barcelona, Spain, on Thursday, March 26, 2020.
People line up to buy supplies from a supermarket during the coronavirus outbreak in Madrid, Spain, on Saturday, March 28, 2020.
A sign that reads in spanish: "Thank you #IstayAtHome" hangs on the facade of the Madrid city hall, Spain, on Sunday March 22, 2020.
An employee test customers' body temperature at the entrance of the Esselunga supermarket, in Milan, Italy, on Wednesday, March 25, 2020.
The streets are deserted along Plaza del Castillo square during lockdown against the spread of coronavirus COVID-19, in Pamplona, northern Spain, on Saturday, March 28, 2020.
Ambulance employees wear special equipment to prevent the spread of coronavirus COVID-19 arriving with a patient at San Pedro hospital, in Logrono, northern Spain, on Saturday, March 28, 2020.
A worker cleans the microphones in a nearly empty parliament while the majority of lawmakers follow the session online before a vote to approve the extension of the national lockdown in Madrid, Spain, on Wednesday, March 25, 2020. Spain has released new figures of the official death toll in Spain because of the coronavirus, surpassing China's death toll.
Spanish Civil Guard officers at a checkpoint to stop drivers from trying to leave the city, in Pamplona, northern Spain, Saturday, March 21, 2020.
A view of Passeig de Sant Joan street as authorities control public movements in Barcelona, Spain, on Sunday, March 22, 2020. Spanish health authorities say intensive care units in the hardest-hit areas are close to their limit. The army was building a field hospital with 5,500 beds in a convention center in Madrid, where hotels are also being turned into wards for virus patients without serious breathing problems.
In this photo released on Tuesday, March 31, 2020, Automobili Lamborghini workers produce sanitary masks, at the Sant'Agata Bolognese factory, Italy. Lamborghini converted part of its St. Agata Bolognese plant to produce medical face masks to be delivered to the Bologna's St. Orsola hospital.
Vueling Airlines planes sit parked in a line at the Seville, Spain airport on Saturday, March 21, 2020, idled due to the COVID-19 coronavirus outbreak.
Paramedics carry an hazardous medical waste box as patients lie on camping beds, in one of the emergency structures that were set up to ease procedures at the Brescia hospital, northern Italy, on Thursday, March 12, 2020.
Health workers react as people applaud from their nearby houses in support of the medical staff that are working on the COVID-19 virus outbreak at the Jimenez Diaz Foundation University hospital in Madrid, Spain, on Saturday, March 21, 2020.
Volunteer worker of Search and Rescue (SAR) with special equipment, disinfects a police car at Local Police station to prevent the spread of coronavirus COVID-19, in Pamplona, northern Spain, on Sunday, March 22, 2020.
An undertaker disinfects tools with a homemade sanitiser during the coronavirus outbreak at a cemetery in Madrid, Spain, on Thursday, March 25, 2020.
Police officers stand in front of Madrid's ice rink turned into a temporary morgue due the COVID-19 crisis in Madrid, Spain, on Tuesday, March 24, 2020. Madrid's ice-skating rink is now being used as a makeshift morgue given the rapid increase in deaths in the Spanish capital.
Relatives watch as the coffin containing the remains of a victim of the COVID-19 is taken for cremation at the Almudena cemetery in Madrid, Spain, on Saturday March 28, 2020. In Spain, where stay-at-home restrictions have been in place for nearly two weeks, the official number of deaths is increasing daily.
Bulgarian soccer team Ludogorets wearing protective face masks sit on a coach bus heading to the San Siro stadium, in Milan, Italy. on Feb. 27, 2020. Ludogorets is playing Italian club Inter Milan in a Europa League soccer match on Thursday that is scheduled to go ahead in an empty stadium due to the coronavirus outbreak.
Spanish Royal guard soldiers disinfect a hospital to prevent the spread of the new coronavirus in Madrid, Spain, on Sunday, March 29, 2020. Spain and Italy demanded more European help as they fight still-surging coronavirus infections amid the continent's worst crisis since World War II.
Volunteer workers of a regional search and rescue disinfect a stretcher with special equipment, close to Navarra Hospital, in Pamplona, northern Spain, on Thursday, March 26, 2020.
Inmates unfold banners reading in Italian Pardon, top, and Freedom, as they stage a protest against new rules to cope with coronavirus emergency, including the suspension of relatives' visits, on the roof of the San Vittore prison in Milan, Italy, on Monday, March 9, 2020.
Red Cross personnel prepare for the transport of a Coronavirus patient during a simulation, in Rome, on Friday, March 6, 2020.
A traveler wears a mask as she fills out a form at a check point set up by border police inside Rome's Termini train station, on Tuesday, March 10, 2020.
Nurses wait for patients at the main entrance of the Brescia hospital, northern Italy, on Thursday, March 12, 2020.
People stand apart as they line up to enter a supermarket in Milan, Italy, on Friday, March 20, 2020.
A patient in a biocontainment unit is carried on a stretcher at the Columbus Covid 2 Hospital in Rome, on Monday, March 16, 2020. The new Columbus Covid 2 Hospital, an area fully dedicated to the COVID-19 cases at the Gemelli university polyclinic, opened today with 21 new ICU units and 32 new beds, in order to support the regional health authorities in trying to contain the pandemic. Sign at top in Italian reads "Admission COVID 19".
In this photo provided by the French Army Thursday, April 2, 2020, medical staffs evacuate a patient infected with the Covid-19 virus, on Wednesday April 1, 2020 at Orly airport, south of Paris. The operation aims at relieving hospitals in the Paris region, hardly hit by the coronavirus.
A medical staff looks through a door in an hospital on Wednesday April 1, 2020 in Rennes, western France. France is evacuating 36 patients infected with the coronavirus from the Paris region onboard two medicalized high-speed TGV trains. The patients, all treated in intensive care units (ICU), are being transferred to several hospitals in Britany, as western France is less impacted by the epidemic.
A convoy of Italian Army trucks arrives from Bergamo carrying bodies of coronavirus victims to the cemetery of Ferrara, Italy, where they will be cremated, on Saturday, March 21, 2020. The transfer was made necessary since Bergamo mortuary reached maximum capacity. For most people, the new coronavirus causes only mild or moderate symptoms.
Coffins are placed on scaffolding in the Crematorium Temple of Piacenza, northern Italy, awaiting cremation due to the coronavirus emergency on March 23, 2020
This GoPro image provided Saturday March 28, 2020 by the French Army shows evacuated patients infected with the Covid-19 disease aboard a military plane from Mulhouse, eastern France to Bordeaux, southwestern France, on Friday March 27, 2020.
Sister André though is more than just her many years, according to Tavella.
“She is so easy to talk to, regardless of age. It is only when she talks about World War I as though she lived through it that I realize, ‘Yes, she did live through it!’” he remarked.
