The Catalan María Branyas celebrates her 116 years as the oldest person in the world

The Catalan

, arriving at the top of the classification prepared by the Gereontological Research Group of the longest-lived people in the world.

Branyas has been at the Santa Maria del Tura residence in Olot (Girona) for twenty-two years, after having lived through the main historical events of the 20th century and all those of this 21st century.

In January, he saw how he became the oldest person on the planet after the death of the French Lucile Randon, who until then occupied the first position.

María Branyas, who for a long time has kept away from interviews to preserve her peace of mind in agreement with her family and those responsible for the center where she lives, uses a profile on the social network twitter to communicate: Super Àvia Catalana (Super Catalan Grandmother).

There, she reaches 10,000 followers and, with the help of the people in her closest environment, she unleashes thoughts about her reality or her current situation from the perspective that her years give her.

This Saturday, a couple of minutes before 09:00 a.m., he made a commemorative publication:

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Then, a quote that he attributes to the Czech poet Jaroslav Seifert: "I had to reach an advanced age to learn to appreciate silence....In silence emotional signals appear and at the crossroads of memory you detect names that time tried to drown ".

The message is accompanied by a photo from a newspaper with an article about her on the occasion of these 116 years, all on a table with breakfast served.

Before this birthday, the last publication by María Branyas featured a fan that her grandmother gave her a century ago with the particularity that it contains a love message that was written to her when she was participating in spiritual exercises for young people that were taught in Banyoles, near Olot, in 1926.

Previously, she explained in another message that the American film director Sam Green had visited her on the occasion of a project she is working on, "The oldest person in the word (the oldest person in the world)", which will be released in 2024. Branyas explained that the film crew for that documentary had been "very nice" and that Green, "always smiling, was very kind and respectful throughout the day."

He adds the Catalan Super Grandma that the production is by Josh Penn and Alison Byrne Fields and that filming will end in 2024: "So, I won't be at the premiere. Enjoy it for those of you who are alive."

María Branyas, who overcame covid in 2020, was born in San Francisco (United States), the daughter of a journalist from Pamplona

who was responsible for the magazine "Mercurio".

Still a child, she returned to Spain, where she has been the mother of three children, she has lived in different Catalan towns and, for more than two decades, a user of Santa Maria del Tura.

Branyas is followed in that classification of centenarians by the Japanese Fusa Tatsumi, who was born just 52 days after her.

Behind them is the American Edie Ceccarelli, who was born in February 1908. The first eight positions correspond to women, of which three are Japanese, three from the United States, one Brazilian and the Spanish at the top of the list.

The first man to appear occupies the ninth place and is the Venezuelan Juan Vicente Pérez, born on May 27, 1909.

As every birthday, María Branyas will be the protagonist of a celebration in Santa Maria del Tura, although it will take place in privacy as in recent years.

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