CALLEWAERT, CAMILLE. - Liturgist, b. at Zweveghem 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 priest on 15 June 1889. Having earned a degree at the University of Louvain, he taught sacred liturgy from 1903 in the seminary of Bruges, and from 1910 at the same University of Louvain.
He published the results of his studies, which were always directed beyond mere rubricistics to consider liturgy in the light of theology and history, in various periodicals, such as the Collationes Brugenses, the Revue bénédictine, and the Ephemerides liturgicae. His major work is the Liturgicae Institutiones, of which three volumes appeared: 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, was published; the second part and the two volumes that were to complete the work—on the liturgy of the Roman Ritual and the liturgy of the ecclesiastical year—remained unpublished due to the author’s death.
Many of his liturgical writings published in various journals are collected in the volume Sacris erudiri (1939), published in the 50th year of his priesthood.