If the number 117 appears on a modest cake – for health reasons – it must mean only one thing: the oldest person in the world celebrated their birthday. This is what happened in the small Catalan town of Olot, where Maria Branyas Morera has lived in a retirement home for many years.
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The modest anniversary celebration took place in the presence, among others, The head of government of the Autonomous Community of Catalonia, Pere Aragones, participated and presented the woman with gifts and a commemorative diploma. As he informs Polsat News, the world’s oldest person, was born in 1907 in San Francisco.
She is the daughter of the Catalan journalist Josep Branyas, who emigrated to California a year earlier. His time abroad ended when a journalist trying to publish the Spanish-language newspaper “Mercurio” found himself in financial difficulty. The current supercentenarian returned to Europe in 1915 and linked her life to Catalonia., where she worked as a nurse. In her free time, she played the piano and her favorite composer was Fryderyk Chopin.
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In 1931, the Catalan married the orthopedist Joan Moret, with whom she had three sons and 11 grandchildren. In January 2023, Maria Brandyas Morera received the title of oldest living person in the world.
The supercentenarian has difficulty moving and hearing problems, but that’s it she has no other physical or mental illness. So much so that with the help of her daughter, she manages… an account on X.com (formerly Twitter). This is where she writes: “Hello everyone. Today I am 117 years old”.
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Supercentenarians often surprise us with their longevity recipes. Maria Branyas Morera is not one of them. He attributes his age and health mainly to good genes. At the same time, she believes that she lived to such an old age thanks – as we can read on the official website of Guinness World Records – “to happiness, to order, to peace, to good contacts with family and friends, contact with nature, emotional stability, absence of worries and regrets, lots of positivity and restraint, stay away from toxic people.
