One of the benefits of brahmacariya is a strong immune system.
This 116-year-old French nun, has survived two world wars, spanish flu pandemic, and covid 19. She was symptomless on covid 19, didn't even know she had it, sign of a strong immune system.
On the other end of the spectrum, many young people in their twenties have died of covid 19.
She ordained around age 40 after world war 2. Living the holy life for almost 80 years.
This reminds me of the bakkula sutta:
● MN 124 - 🔗🔊 6m, Bakkula [Bākula]: name of monk:
ordained for 80 years, never once had a perception of lust or ill will.
What Bakkula did in the sutta, sounds pretty far fetched, ordaining at age 80, and then living another 80 years.
But as the nun shows, ordaining at age 40 and living another 80 years in good health is pretty feasible, especially considering Bakkula was a doctor and health conscious.
I suspect Bakkula was probably something like 60 yrs old, and ordained for 60 years, or something where it tops out around 120yr old lifespan. And then the Buddhist myth makers decided to embellish the story to make it more inspirational, but instead just ends up doing the opposite and making us doubt the whole story. Always best to tell the truth.
story from cnn news:
https://www.cnn.com/2021/02/10/europe/oldest-woman-europe-covid-scli-intl/index.html
Europe's oldest person, a 116-year-old French nun, survives Covid-19
By Jack Guy, CNN
Updated 9:25 AM ET, Wed February 10, 2021
116-year-old nun, Europe's oldest person, survives Covid-19
116-year-old nun, Europe's oldest person, survives Covid-19 00:38
(CNN)Europe's oldest person has survived Covid-19 after testing positive just a few weeks before her 117th birthday.
Sister André, a nun who was born in 1904, tested positive for the virus on January 16, according to David Tavella, communications director at the Sainte Catherine Labouré nursing home in Toulon, southern France, where she lives.
André, who was born Lucille Randon, showed no symptoms, Tavella told CNN Wednesday.
Sister André, pictured in February 2020.
Sister André, pictured in February 2020.
"I didn't know I had it," André said in an interview with CNN affiliate BFMTV. "No, I wasn't scared because I wasn't scared of dying."
André is preparing to celebrate her 117th birthday on Thursday. Although visitors aren't allowed at the home, she will receive video messages from her family and the local mayor, as well as taking part in a video Mass, Tavella said.
"We're doing all we can to make her happy," he said.
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André's birthday meal will feature her favorites: foie gras, baked Alaska and a glass of red wine, Tavella added.
"She drinks a glass of wine every lunchtime," he said.
"Sister André's birthday is taking place at a good time -- it couldn't be a better time, because it will mark the beginning of big festivities that will be organized around this relaxing of our restrictions," Tavella told BFMTV. "Our residents will be able to get out of their rooms, eat together, participate in activities."
André worked as a governess and a teacher, teaching the children to be "very polite," she told French TV station CNEWS. She became a nun in 1944 and moved to the nursing home in Toulon in 2009, Tavella told CNN.
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She has lived through two world wars as well as the 1918 Spanish Flu pandemic -- she told CNEWS she didn't catch the deadly virus -- and remains philosophical about the coronavirus.
"It will come and go," she told BFMTV. "I don't know."
André is the second-oldest person alive today, after Kane Tanaka, a Japanese woman who was born on January 2, 1903, according to the Gerontology Research Group (GRG).
André became the oldest living person in France in October 2017 following the death of Honorine Rondello, and is the second-oldest French person ever, following Jeanne Calment, who lived to 122.
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