Columbia University Professor of Art History and Archeology Holger A. Klein will be on campus tomorrow giving an Art Department sponsored lecture entitled Cities, Saints, and Sacred Matter: Relics and Ritual in Jerusalem, Constantinople,and Venice. Klein will be speaking in Davis at 5:15.

Prof. Klein will examine the cult of relics in these three cities from about 350 to 1350. Focusing initially on the cult of relics and their public performance in Jerusalem during the first three centuries, he will explore the translation of relics to Constantinople in advance of the Persian attacks of 614, and the dispersion of relics to Venice and elsewhere in the West after 1204. <via Events>