Sister Marie-Bernadette, o.p, 109 years and 89 of religious life !

[NadaTeTurbe]

Sister Marie-Bernadette is a dominican sisters in a French monastery, in Dax. She was finally professed in 1927. She prays the rosary all day. She's in Dax since 1937. 

http://www.la-croix.com/Religion/France/A-Dax-la-plus-vieille-religieuse-du-monde-2016-03-16-1200747076

[Charbel]

This is amesome! What a sweet article. She must be such a holy woman for God to have her live this long in earthly service to Him.

[DominicanHeart]

God Bless her

[WhoamI]

Wow. How beautiful. I am always in awe of very elderly religious. 

[nikita92]

I would LOVE to talk face to face with her!!! She is a true treasure!!

[Luigi]

She, Fr. Paul Duffner, Sister Mary Compassion of Menlo Park, and a few others ought to get together for an 800th-anniversary chat! They constitute the current crop of the order's institutional memory. 

[enitharmon]

That article linked to another about Sister Candida Bellotti, who recently turned 109 and made her vows in 1931: http://www.la-croix.com/Religion/Monde/La-doyenne-mondiale-religieux-fete-109-2016-02-21-1200741591

 

From that article:

Le secret de sa longévité ? « Écouter la voix du Christ et être docile à sa volonté. Pendant toute ma vie, j’ai toujours pensé : là où le Seigneur me met, c’est là la bonne place pour moi »