Frank Kacmarcik
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Frank Kacmarcik was an American designer, in later life a Benedictine
Oblate
, and a leader in the Liturgical Movement
.
In France after the Second World War, he studied painting, religious art, and church decoration.http://mail.architexturez.net/+/Design-L.V1/archive/msg21319.shtml In 1950, he became as assistant professor of art at St. John's University in Collegeville, Minnesota, and helped establish art as a major there. Beginning in the 1950s, he often designed covers for Worship magazine, a scholarly journal of liturgical theology.
From From Seeing and Believing by Paul Philibert, O.P., (Pueblo Books, The Liturgical Press, 1995).
Benedictine
Benedictine refers to the spirituality and consecrated life in accordance with the Rule of St Benedict, written by Benedict of Nursia in the sixth century for the cenobitic communities he founded in central Italy. The most notable of these is Monte Cassino, the first monastery founded by Benedict...
Oblate
Oblate
An oblate spheroid is a rotationally symmetric ellipsoid having a polar axis shorter than the diameter of the equatorial circle whose plane bisects it. Oblate spheroids stand in contrast to prolate spheroids....
, and a leader in the Liturgical Movement
Liturgical Movement
The Liturgical Movement began as a movement of scholarship for the reform of worship within the Roman Catholic Church. It has grown over the last century and a half and has affected many other Christian Churches, including the Church of England and other Churches of the Anglican Communion, and some...
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In France after the Second World War, he studied painting, religious art, and church decoration.http://mail.architexturez.net/+/Design-L.V1/archive/msg21319.shtml In 1950, he became as assistant professor of art at St. John's University in Collegeville, Minnesota, and helped establish art as a major there. Beginning in the 1950s, he often designed covers for Worship magazine, a scholarly journal of liturgical theology.
- "He worked as a full-time consultant in church design, printing, and the graphic arts. In addition to becoming one of the most influential voices in church design following the Second Vatican CouncilSecond Vatican CouncilThe Second Vatican Council addressed relations between the Roman Catholic Church and the modern world. It was the twenty-first Ecumenical Council of the Catholic Church and the second to be held at St. Peter's Basilica in the Vatican. It opened under Pope John XXIII on 11 October 1962 and closed...
, he also designed for Benziger Brothers' publishing house many of the first generation of Catholic liturgical bookLiturgical bookA liturgical book is a book published by the authority of a church, that contains the text and directions for the liturgy of its official religious services.-Roman Catholic:...
s in English in implementation of the council's call for a vernacular liturgy. In these books, he introduced a reform toward a simpler, more legible style."
From From Seeing and Believing by Paul Philibert, O.P., (Pueblo Books, The Liturgical Press, 1995).
See also
- Hill Museum & Manuscript Library
- College of Saint Benedict/Saint John's UniversityCollege of Saint Benedict/Saint John's UniversityThe College of Saint Benedict , for women, and Saint John's University , for men, are partnered liberal arts colleges respectively located in St. Joseph and Collegeville, Minnesota, USA. Students attend classes and activities together, and have access to the resources of both campuses...