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Lucile Randon, the French nun who was the world’s oldest living person and the oldest person to survive COVID-19, died in her sleep on Tuesday, Jan. 17, at the Sainte-Catherine-Laboure nursing home in the town of Toulon. Randon was less than a month away from celebrating her 119th birthday, multiple outlets reported. 11, 1904, Randon worked as a teacher, governess and child care provider before becoming a Catholic nun in 1944. After becoming a nun, Randon took the name “Sr. 119-year-old Kane Tanaka of Japan on April 19, 2022, according to Guinness World Records.

Randon also held the record of “oldest nun living” and oldest person in Europe, said Guinness World Records. She still holds the record for “oldest nun. Lucile Randon, AKA Sister André, poses for a portrait at the Sainte Catherine Laboure care home in Toulon, southern France, on Wednesday, April 27, 2022, shortly after becoming the oldest person in the world. In January 2021, Randon became the oldest person to survive COVID-19.

She was diagnosed with the coronavirus on Jan. 16, 2021, but recovered in three weeks, Fox News Digital previously reported. She said at the time that her only symptom was tiredness and that she was unaware she was infected until she tested positive. When Randon was a teen, she lived through the Spanish Flu pandemic.