Ade Bethune

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name=Ade Bethune


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birth_name=Adélaide de Bethune, Baroness, from a noble Belgian family who emigrated after World War I. Her mother Marthe was daughter of Viscount Terlinden.
birth_date=January 12, 1914
birth_place=Schaerbeek, Belgium
death_date=May 1, 2002
death_place=Portsmouth, Rhode Island
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resting_place=Portsmouth Abbey, Portsmouth, Rhode Island
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other_names=A. de Bethune
known_for=woodcuts in the "Catholic Worker"
education=Cooper Union
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occupation=artist
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religion=Roman Catholic
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parents=Gaston and Marthe de Bethune
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Ade Bethune was a Catholic liturgical artist. She was associated with the Catholic Worker Movement, and designed an early masthead of its publication, the "Catholic Worker", first used in 1935. She later re-designed this is 1985, replacing one of the men with a woman. [cite journal |last=Gneuhs |first=Geoffrey |title=The Art of the Worker The "Catholic Worker" |volume=LXXV |issue=3 May, 2008 |pages=6]

Early career

Ade volunteered her illutrations to improve the quality of the "Catholic Worker" when she was a nineteen year old art student, impressed with the work of Dorothy Day. This was preparation for her later illustration for Catholic liturgical works such as 'My Sunday Missal' in 1937, and similar works such as 'My Lenten Missal'.

Terra Sancta Guild

Beginning in the 1960s, she was the artistic director of the Terra Sancta Guild, a commercial firm that produced religious art works for many Christian denominations.

ocial activism

Ade was first interested in the Catholic Worker Movement's work with hospitality for the poor. She continued this interest throughout her life, and became interested in the issue of providing housing for the elderly, particularly the poor elderly. In 1969, she founded the Church Community Housing Corporation in Newport County, Rhode Island, to design and build housing. In 1991 she founded 'Star of the Sea' to renovate a former Carmelite convent into an intentional community and state of the art housing for the elderly, where she lived at her death in 2002.

Artistic Works

* Crucifix, St. Paulinus Parish, Clairton, Pennsylvania
* Design of St. Leo Church in St. Paul, Minnesota, including revival of a central altar
* Altar chapel and stained glass oculus at the Chapel + Cultural Center at Rensselaer

Biography

* Judith Stoughton: "Proud Donkey of Schaerbeek: Ade Bethune, Catholic Worker Artist" St. Cloud, Minnesota, North Star Press of St. Cloud, 1988 ISBN 0878390510
* [http://library.stkate.edu/spcoll/ABCade.html On-line short biography]
* James A. Merolla [http://www.catholicworker.com/bethune.htm "Where are they now? Ade Bethune, "Catholic Worker" artist]
* [http://www.catholicworker.org/bethune.htm Information from the "Catholic Worker"]

ources

* [http://library.stkate.edu/spcoll/bethune.html The Ade Bethune Collection]

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NAME=Ade Bethune
ALTERNATIVE NAMES=Adélaide de Bethune
SHORT DESCRIPTION=Catholic Worker artist
DATE OF BIRTH=January 12, 1914
PLACE OF BIRTH=Brussels
DATE OF DEATH=May 1, 2002
PLACE OF DEATH=Newport, Rhode Island