Maria de Jesus

Maria de Jesus dos Santos (born September 10, 1893) is a Portuguese supercentenarian, and, since the August 13, 2007 death of Japanese woman and oldest person Yone Minagawa, the second-oldest person in the world. She has been the oldest verified living person in Portugal since the death of fellow 114-year-old Maria do Couto Maia-Lopes on July 25, 2005, and the oldest in Europe since the death of another 114-year-old, Frenchwoman Camille Loiseau, on August 12, 2006.