What happened : The Guinness World Records announced that Puerto Rico’s Emilio Flores Marquez is as the world’s oldest living man at the age of 112 years and 326 days old.
Details: He was born in Carolina, east of the Puerto Rican capital of San Juan on on August 8, 1908. Marquez is the second oldest child of 11 siblings and spent most of his life working on the family’s sugarcane farm.
Marquez was married for 75 years to Andrea Perez, who passed away in 2010. He now has five grandchildren and five great-grandchildren. He currently lives in Rio Piedras, Puerto Rico, where his two children, Tirsa and “Millito” take care of him.
He said that to live as happily as he has for so long, you need to have an abundance of love in your life.
“My father raised me with love, loving everyone. He always told me and my siblings to do good, to share everything with others. Besides, Christ lives in me,” said Emilio. The record was earlier held by Romania’s Dumitru Comănescu. However, Marquez surpassed him and was awarded the certificate at his home in Puerto Rico. Click here to see more from Propergaanda