While visiting St. Francis Xavier Church in the New York borough of Manhattan, Corinna Laughlin, the director of liturgy for St. James Cathedral in Seattle, saw a series of 12 icons hung along a wall, including one of St. Kateri Tekakwitha. Members of the Archdiocese of Seattle and St. James Cathedral were already planning to mount an icon of St. Kateri in the cathedral, and through Laughlin's discovery, they unexpectedly found their artist on the other side of the country: Patricia Brintle.
