 While in China, he lived in a mountain village 150 miles from Peking with a Franciscan priest who was building a Catholic church in stone quarried from a nearby mountain, Pattison carved Twelve Stations of the Cross for the monastery with the assistance of several local stone masons.Next traveling in Japan, Abbott Pattison was arrested as a spy, but soon released.He warned his interrogators that he would return to Japan, but the next time he would be wearing a uniform.