From my mate Garry:

Friends of St Paul’s Cathedral, Melbourne, are hosting a three-part lecture series Beyond Angels and Demons: Illuminating Faith: The Role of Art in Religion. The first lecture will be given on Thursday 30 April 2009 at 6.30pm at St Paul’s Cathedral by Dr Felicity Harley-McGowan of the University of Melbourne on Early Christian Art. Dr Harley-McGowan will demonstrate how early Christians adopted and adapted symbols and pictorial types from the cultures around them to present their beliefs.

Future lectures will be given by Professor Margaret Manion (14 May) and Sr Rosemary Crumlin (11 June).