CALLEWAERT, CAMILLE. - Liturgist, b. at Zwevegem on 1 Jan. 1866, d. at Bruges on 6 Aug. 1943. After completing his studies in the seminaries of Roeselare and Bruges, he was ordained a priest on 15 June 1889. Having obtained his doctorate at the University of Louvain, he taught sacred liturgy from 1903 at the seminary of Bruges, and from 1910 at the University of Louvain itself.
He set forth the results of his studies, always directed, beyond mere rubricism, to considering the liturgy in the light of theology and history, in various periodicals, such as the Collationes Brugentes, the Revue bénédictique, and the Ephemerides liturgicae. The Liturgicae Institutiones are his major work, of which three volumes have seen the light: De sacra Liturgia universum (1919); De Breviarii Romani liturgia (1931); De Missalis Romani liturgia (1937), of which only the first section, devoted to the material elements of worship, has been published; the second part and the two volumes that were to complete the work — the Liturgy of the Roman Ritual and the Liturgy of the Ecclesiastical Year — have remained unpublished because of the author's death.
Many of his liturgical writings that appeared in various journals
are contained in the volume Sacris erudiri (1939), published on the
50th anniversary of his priesthood.
Bibliography
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