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Sister Helene O'Connor: The Vocation and Apostolate of a Liturgical Artist
- U.S. Catholic Historian
- The Catholic University of America Press
- Volume 35, Number 4, Fall 2017
- pp. 105-131
- 10.1353/cht.2017.0024
- Article
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Abstract:
Sister Helene O'Connor, O.P. (1909–1992), an active proponent of the Liturgical Movement, lived and worked as an artist and educator primarily in the rural Midwest. This environment created a geographic space for the Liturgical Movement and the arts to flourish in ways different from most urban settings. As an Adrian Dominican sister, and as a visual artist within a religious congregation, her zeal for asserting art as an important apostolate within the Catholic Church is noted in the ways she navigated obligations and opportunities to pursue her vocation.