Oldest Priest Dies

He was 109. Here’s the Brit obit. Money quote:

At his 109th birthday celebrations, for which he said mass in the convent chapel where he spent his last years, Fuchs joked about his fragile start in life. "My mother told my father: ‘Let’s just give him your name ‚Äî he’s only going to die anyway’," he recalled. The baby was so tiny and frail his mother was convinced he could not survive…

On his last birthday, his eyesight failing, he expressed his sadness to the local newspaper that he was no longer able to read the Bible from beginning to end "one last time".