A 118-year-old French nun now holds the title of the world’s oldest living person, the Guinness Book of World Records has announced.

Sister André was born Lucile Randon on Feb. 11, 1904.

She took over the oldest slot after the death last week of Kane Tanaka of Japan, who was 119 years, 107 days old, having been born Jan. 2, 1903.

Sister André worked as a teacher and a governess before becoming a Catholic nun in the Daughters of Charity order in 1944, the Guinness announcement said. She retired at age 75 and for the past 12 years she has lived in a home for the elderly in Toulon.

Early last year, she tested positive for COVID-19 but “shook off the virus after three weeks,” Guinness said.

Sister André has more than two years on the next oldest living person, Tekla Juniewicz of Poland. The men’s record is held by a 112-year-old Venezuelan.

Guinness accepts as the all-time oldest person Jeanne Louise Calment, who claimed to have been born in 1875. She died in 1997, at a stated age of 122 years 164 days.

Calment is the only person verified to have lived past 120, and some doubters hypothesize that her identity was assumed by her daughter.