About Camille Callewaert
Lived 1866 – 1943 (aged 76–77). Camille Callewaert was a Belgian historian, canon, church historian, director and catholic priest.
Kamiel Callewaert (1866–1943), Belgian historian, professor and prelate. Kamiel Callewaert (Zwevegem, 1 January 1866 – Bruges, 6 August 1943) was a Belgian Catholic priest and historian.
Biography Kamiel Aloys Callewaert was ordained a priest in 1889. He gained a licenciate in canon law at the Catholic University of Leuven in 1892, a topic he would also teach at this university starting at 1910. In 1894, he became a teacher and a school principal. In the same year, he took on the role of president of Bruges seminary. In 1907, he became a canon regular, and on 6 August 1929 he was appointed an honorary prelate.
Callewaert was a member of the Pontifical Academy of Theology in Rome, and chairman of the Flemish Federation of Liturgy.
Publications His publications include: Jansenius, évêque d'Ypres: ses derniers moments, sa soumission au S. Siège, d'après des documents inédits: étude de critique historique par des membres du Séminaire d'histoire ecclésiastique, établi à l'Université Catholique de Louvain, Leuven, 1893. (A work on the final hours of Cornelius Jansen) Les reliques de sainte Godelieve à Ghistelles et leurs authentiques, 1908 Nouvelles recherches sur la chronologie médiévale en Flandre, Bruges, 1909 La durée et le caractère du carême ancien dans l'église latine, Bruges, 1913 Chartes anciennes de l'abbaye de Zonnebeke, Bruges, 1925 Licht en liefde voor onze blinden, vereeniging tot bescherming van de belangen der blinden (with co-author Maurice Duyvewaardt), Bruges, 1925. De origine cantus Gregoriani, Bruges, 1926. Caeremoniale in missa privata et solemni aliisque frequentioribus functionibus liturgicis servandum, Bruges, 1928 Liturgie en eucharistie, Bruges, 1929. Over liturgisch mishooren, Den Bosch, 1930 Ons kerkelijk jaar: ontstaan, indeeling, beteekenis, vruchtbaarheid, Den Bosch, 1932. Liturgische beweging: wat ze niet is, wat ze wel is en moet zijn, Den Bosch, 1933. Vasten en Voorvasten, Den Bosch, 1933. Eucharistisch en liturgisch leven, Bruges, 1936. Sacris erudiri: fragmenta liturgica collecta a monachis sancti Petri de Aldenburgo in Steenbrugge ne pereant, Bruges, 1940
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Belgian historian (1866-1943)
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Camille Callewaert was born in 1866 in Zwevegem.
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Camille Callewaert died on 6 August 1943 in Bruges.
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