LYNN – At 104 years old, Ana Henriquez believes that the secret to a long life is faith.In an interview translated by her granddaughter Maria Garcia and her great-grandson Julio Sanabia, Henriquez, a native of the Dominican Republic who may be the oldest person in Lynn, says the reason she is here is “God and my saints.”She has a shrine in the closet of her Broad Street apartment filled with pictures of saints, photographs, candles and flowers that she prays to every day at 6 p.m. for an hour while holding her rosary. Her patron saint is St. Jude, and she gives money to St. Jude Children?s Research Hospital once a month.Sanabia and Garcia suspect that the long lifespan is genetic. They say Henriquez?s mother died at the age of 119; her grandmother was 124. Henriquez has a sister in New York City who is 96, already outliving the youngest person to die in the family, who passed at 82.?They were very poor back in my country, but they ate healthy,” said Garcia, describing a meal of rice, beans, lean meats, and vegetables.Now, despite her love of coffee, the smoking pipe and Chinese food, Henriquez is completely healthy. She often takes walks outside her apartment to buy scratch tickets, sometimes “forgetting” her cane.Her one complaint is boredom – Garcia says she will walk around the apartment whining, “The house is clean – what am I going to do? I can?t just sit down, I need to do something.” To fill her time, she watches old Spanish soap operas that Sanabia recorded for her.Henriquez has spent her many years caring for the generations after her. Sanabia and Garcia say that she has had a hand in the upbringing of every grandchild, great-grandchild and great-great-grandchild. At one time, there were five generations living under one roof.According to Garcia, Henriquez may actually be even older than recorded. When the family immigrated to the New York City from the Dominican Republic on Feb. 14, 1963, they had an incorrect birth certificate for Henriquez. Garcia says her grandmother will actually be 109, which sets her birth year back to 1901.After almost 10 years in New York, Henriquez and her family moved to Lynn, and have been there ever since. She became a citizen of the United States in 1999 and has for the last 20 years has lived in the same apartment, where she has a lot of people checking in on her. Besides the family and the tenants of the building who bring her cake and other treats, Henriquez is always taking calls from people in the Dominican and Colombia – friends with similar life spans.Garcia says her Abuela (Spanish for grandmother) has had countless offers to live with others, but she will never let her go.?I know we?re going to have her around for another 10, 15 years,” said Garcia. “She?s so at peace.”