Father Jacques Clemens attends a mass at St. Benoit church in Nalinnes, Belgium, July 10, 2016.
Reuters/Francois Lenoir
Reuters
A strict daily
routine is the recipe for a long life, according to the world's oldest
priest, Belgian Jacques Clemens, who will celebrate his 107th birthday
on Monday.
Clemens, who has
also celebrated his 80th anniversary as a Catholic priest, gets up every
morning at 5.30 a.m. and goes to bed at 9.00 p.m.
When Clemens was
about to retire at 75, his bishop asked him to remain in service until
they found a successor - he only stopped holding regular church services
at his parish in the southern Belgian village of Nalinnes last year.
(Reporting by Francois Lenoir, writing by Robert-Jan Bartunek; Editing by Janet Lawrence)
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