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How 105-Year-Old Got There

February 25, 2021 by sd


Interesting it is that the oldest people in the news, for surviving the coronavirus, are dedicated Catholic women who pray the Rosary.

From The New York Times:

Ask Lucia DeClerck (of New Jersey) how she has lived to be 105, and she is quick with an answer. “Prayer. Prayer. Prayer,” she offers. “One step at a time. No junk food.”

But surviving the coronavirus, she said, also may have had something to do with another staple: the nine gin-soaked golden raisins she has eaten each morning for most of her life. “Fill a jar,” she explained. “Nine raisins a day after it sits for nine days.” A devout Catholic, Ms. DeClerck led rosary prayers each week at the nursing home and, before the pandemic, was a fixture at weekly Mass.

When she was diagnosed, said the home’s administrator, “At first she was a little apprehensive, a little scared, but she said, ‘God will protect me.’”

As The Times added: “Ms. DeClerck is not the oldest person to beat the virus. Europe’s oldest known resident, Sister André, contracted the virus at 116 — becoming the oldest known person to have survived Covid-19. She celebrated with a glass of Champagne on her 117th birthday earlier this month at a nursing home in Toulon, a city in southeastern France.”

Hats off and bottoms up (and raisins raised) to both of them.

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