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Adelaide “Ade” Bethune

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Adelaide “Ade” Bethune

Birth
Brussels-Capital Region, Belgium
Death
1 May 2002 (aged 88)
Newport, Newport County, Rhode Island, USA
Burial
Portsmouth, Newport County, Rhode Island, USA Add to Map
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Daughter of Gaston and Marthe de Bethune. Liturgical artist, art teacher, art director, consultant in church architecture, sculptor, painter, metal worker, mosaic artist, wood carver, illustrator. Benedictine Oblate of Portsmouth Abbey in Rhode Island. Born in Schaerbeek, Belgium. To New York in 1928. Associated with Dorothy Day and the Catholic Worker movement from 1933. Founded Star of the Sea, a nonprofit corporation that provided housing for the elderly.
Daughter of Gaston and Marthe de Bethune. Liturgical artist, art teacher, art director, consultant in church architecture, sculptor, painter, metal worker, mosaic artist, wood carver, illustrator. Benedictine Oblate of Portsmouth Abbey in Rhode Island. Born in Schaerbeek, Belgium. To New York in 1928. Associated with Dorothy Day and the Catholic Worker movement from 1933. Founded Star of the Sea, a nonprofit corporation that provided housing for the elderly.

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