Maria Branyas has survived two world wars and one civil warto the Francoism Yet the pandemic. Since last January she is the oldest person in the world, after the death of a French nun Lucile Randoat 118 years and 340 days. This Saturday, in addition, the one known as ‘Super Àvia Catalana’ is celebrating: he turns 116 years old.
Born March 4, 1907 in San FranciscoBranyas heads the classification prepared by the Gereontological Research Group of the Guinness of Records about the older people of the planet. the woman carries 22 years in residence Santa Maria del Tura olot (Girona), after having experienced the main historical events of the 20th century and all those of this 21st century.
Away from the media focus, but active on Twitter
Branyas stays away from the media focus for a long time preserve your peace of mind, but in agreement with the family and those responsible for the center where he resides, he uses a Twitter account to communicate. “I am old, very old, but not an idiot“, so forceful is defined in the profile called ‘Super Àvia Catalana’ (Catalan great grandmother, in Spanish), which she created in December 2019, when she was 112 years old.
On the social network, he has more than 10,000 followers and, with the help of the people in his closest environment, he gives free rein to thoughts about his reality or current events from the perspective that his years give him. Today has not been an exception and has quoted the Czech poet and journalist Jaroslav Seifert to commemorate the anniversary that involves blowing out 116 candles.
a fascinating life
“I had to get to advanced age to learn to appreciate silence. In the silence, emotional signs appear and at the crossroads of memory you detect names that time tried to drown “, she tweeted along with a photo from a newspaper with an article about her on the occasion of her birthday.
Daughter of a journalist from Pamplona who crossed the Atlantic to be responsible for the ‘Mercury’ magazine. The woman returned with her family to Spain while the First World War was taking place. She has lived in Barcelona, in Girona and in the Girona municipalities of Banyoles, Calonge i Sant Antoni and Palol de Revardit.
was the mother of three children and has great grandchildren. One of them expressed in January the joy he felt for Branyas’s record. “I just come to say that my great-grandmother is right now the oldest person in the world… heavy,” Albert Raventós tweeted. Yes she is strong, yes. In addition, the old woman has grabbed the headlines since before she became the oldest person in the world. In May 2020, the old woman, then 113 years old, was already the longest-lived woman in Spain. In addition, she became the oldest person to overcome the coronavirus in our country in 2020.
Good morning, mon. Avui complex 116 years old. As Jaroslav Seifert said:
“I have arrived at age
advanced
per learn to estimate the
hush…
In the silence they appear
emotional signs
ia les cruïlles de la
memory
detect noms & rdquor;
that the temps intended
offer”. pic.twitter.com/ldYHBJVYky— Super Àvia Catalana (@MariaBranyas112) March 4, 2023
Eight women occupy the ‘top ten’ of long-lived people alive
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Branyas leads the list of longest-lived people in the world at 116 years old, but he is followed in this ranking by other admirable grandparents. Specifically, the Japanese Fusa Tatsumi was born just 52 days after her. The third place of this affectionate ranking it is occupied by the American Edie Ceccarelli, who was born in February 1908.
The eight first positions correspond to women, of which three are Japanese, three from the United States, one from Brazil and one from Spain. The first man to appear occupies the ninth place and is the Venezuelan Juan Vicente Pérez, born on May 27, 1909.