Meet Maria Emilia, a 116-year-old scientist
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Lena Campos | 5 hours ago
María Emilia Quesada Blanco was born on January 5, 1901, that is, she turned 116 and although she does not appear in the records published in Gerontology Research Group among the ten longest-lived women in the world, according to her date of birth would be the The fourth woman living the longest living on the planet only surpassed by Emma Morano, Italian born in 1899, Violet Brown Jamaican and Nabi Tajima, Japanese both born in the year 1900.
Known in her land as "La Primorosa" or "La joya de Monserrat", Maria Emilia commented in conversation with the provincial newspaper September 5 that she never married or had children. His family was composed of sixteen brothers, all dead: the first died young in an accident, and the last, also single, died a little over a hundred years.
As a child she attended with her parents to the Monserrat Church and there embraced religious ideas and dedicated to that faith has lived these years. He worked in the church's offices, where he tended the telephone, tended the plants, and doubled the Sunday Catholic publication.
It took his life to help all, sick, single women, abandoned children. He went to the hospital and took care of the sick, then he always took care of them in his house for free. He also went to the nursing homes and accompanied them, brought them sweets and candy. All this work of charity was very important in the life of this centenary.
Today with his years he spends much of the day sitting but prays for everyone, for the city, neighbors, friends and asks because there are no more wars.
In his routine of life he appears Tuesday and Friday to the church and there takes the communion, prays for hours. The Jesuits appreciate it and help, and also those grateful to those who served when life allowed it. Today they reward her because as her work was disinterested, in the congregations, Maria Emilia has no retirement and are now their benefactors.
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