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| Born | Adélaide de Bethune (1914-01-12)January 12, 1914 |
| Died | May 1, 2002(2002-05-01) (aged 88) Portsmouth, Rhode Island, U.S. |
| Education | Cooper Union |
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| Movement | Catholic social art |
Ade Bethune (January 12, 1914 – May 1, 2002) was an American liturgical artist. She was associated with theCatholic Worker Movement, and designed an early masthead of its publication, theCatholic Worker, first used in 1935. She later re-designed this in 1985, replacing one of the men with a woman.[1]
Bethune was an advocate of traditionaliconography in theRoman Catholic Church.[2] She was inducted into theRhode Island Heritage Hall of Fame in 1990.[3]
BornBaronessAdélaide de Bethune to a noble Belgian family, her parents were Gaston and MartheTerlinden. She emigrated with the family afterWorld War I. Her mother Marthe was daughter ofViscount Terlinden.
Bethune volunteered her illustrations to improve the quality of theCatholic Worker when she was a nineteen-year-old art student, impressed with the work ofDorothy Day. This was preparation for her later illustration for Catholic liturgical works such asMy Sunday Missal in 1937, and similar works such asMy Lenten Missal.
De Bethune also worked closely with Graham Carey and with theCatholic Art Association, founded in 1937 bySister Esther Newport.[4][5] 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.
Ade was interested in theCatholic Worker Movement's work with hospitality for the poor when she was an art student. 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 inNewport County, Rhode Island, to design and build housing. In 1991 she founded Star of the Sea to renovate a formerCarmelite convent into anintentional community and state of the art housing for the elderly, where she lived until her death in 2002. She is buried at Portsmouth Abbey,Portsmouth, Rhode Island.
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