Saint Joseph the Worker (#3404) |
The appearance of Saint Joseph and her other drawings in The Catholic Worker helped launch Bethune's fame as an artist. Nearly all of Bethune's succeeding work can be traced to connections and ideas originating because of her involvement with the Catholic Worker movement. But St. Joseph the Worker carries additional significance to her work. In 1937 she published the treatise Work, an essay on the dignity of labor and the worship of God implied in a job done well. She later turned some of these same ideas into "The Person and the Industrial Counter-Revolution," a talk she gave at the College of St. Catherine (now St. Catherine University) in 1939 for the 3rd meeting of the Catholic Art Association. It was also the title of a 1940 article she published in the CAA's journal, Christian Social Art Quarterly.
With all these connections to the day and ideals of Saint Joseph the Worker, it is somehow fitting that Ade Bethune died on May 1, 2002.
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