Teresita Barajuen

Teresita Barajuen (16 September 1907 – 12 June 2013) was a Spanish Roman Catholic nun and member of the Order of Cistercians. Barajuen is believed to hold the world record for the longest service in cloister.

Biography Barajuen entered the Monastery of Santa María de Buenafuente del Sistal on 16 April 1927, when she was nineteen years old. She and her fellow nuns were forced to flee the monastery during the Spanish Civil War due to fighting in the region.

Barajuean was one of ten Spanish nuns featured in a 2013 book, What is a Girl Like You Doing In A Place Like This?, by Jesús García, a journalist with El Mundo. Barajuen died during the night of 12 June 2013, at the age of 105. Her death was reported by Sister Maria Romero, abbess of the Buenafuente del Sistal monastery.