Open lecture in Wellington on St Peter’s Basilica In Rome

Friday, August 7th, 2015

On Sunday 30 August, The Catholic Institute 2015 Open Lecture will be delivered about St Peter’s Basilica by Dr Christopher Evan Longhurst STD, at the Cathedral of the Sacred Heart, Hill Street, Wellington. The lecture starts at 8pm, following 7pm Eucharist.

Dr Longhurst works at the Musei Vaticani in Rome as a researcher and scholar, covering theology and the visual arts, theological aesthetics, religion and the arts, and sacred art and architecture. Continue reading

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