Maria Branyas Morera has survived the horrors of two world wars, a civil war and two global pandemics. 9News
Now US-born Maria Branyas Morera has been named the world's oldest person by Guinness World Records , following theMorera has spent the last 22 years in a nursing home in Catalonia, Spain, but she was born almost 116 years ago thousands of kilometers away in San Francisco.US-born Maria Branyas Morera has been named the world's oldest person by Guinness World Records , following the death of French nun Sister André earlier this month aged 118.
Despite being just weeks away from her 116th birthday, Morera even uses Twitter - with a little help from her daughter - to communicate with her thousands of followers.Morera was born a year after her parents emigrated to the US.Eight years later, the family moved back but the journey proved to be a treacherous one.
The family arrived in Barcelona during World War I and Morera's life has also spanned the Spanish Civil War and World War II. In a series of tweets in Catalan on Saturday, Morera, who has three children, 11 grandchildren and 13 great-grandchildren, said she was "surprised and grateful" for the interest generated by her new status but that the last few days had been "stressful" and she would not be giving any more interviews."I have lived in the Tura Residence for 22 years and I do not want the day-to-day life of the residents or the staff who take care of us to change.
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