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“One of the things I love most was it had people I loved from other things in it — Alan Alda from ‘MASH,’ Carol Burnett from ‘The Carol Burnett Show,’ Rita Moreno from ‘The Electric Company.’

Sister Rita said the nun had not had any surgeries until she underwent a cataract operation aged 106.

Sister Rita put the 116-year-old's longevity down to discipline.

Sister Rita Fernandes Barbosa, a co-ordinator at the religious home where Sister Inah lived, told RBS TV that the 116-year-old had enjoyed good health for most of her life.

“They lied about everything,” his sister, Rita Brandon, told The Times.