Nun emerges from convent after 84 years to meet Pope

AT 103 years old, Sister Teresita was set for the experience of a lifetime.

After spending the last 84 years in a convent, she emerged yesterday to meet Pope Benedict XVI in Madrid.

Sr Teresita lives at the Buenafuente del Sistal convent, about 100km northeast of Madrid, which she entered at the age of 19, on April 16, 1927 — by a strange coincidence the same day when Joseph Ratzinger, now Pope Benedict, was born in Germany.