outer windows: “As often as you did it to one of these, the least of my brothers or sisters, you did it to me.”(Matthew 25:40) Chapel The cathedral chapel is home to an altarpiece by Florentine artist Neri di Bicci, dating to 1456. It represents the Madonna and Child surrounded by six saints including St. Luke, the physician (with an ox), St. Bartholomew (with the knife used to flay him), St. Lawrence, the Deacon (with the grill on which he was martyred and a palm signifying a martyr's victory), St. John the Baptist (who in the painting is depicted proclaiming “Ecce Agnus Dei,” “Behold the Lamb of God”), St. Martin, 4th century Bishop of Tours, and St. Sebastian, Roman martyr put to death by arrows. This subject, common in Renaissance art, is known as a sacra conversazione, a “holy conversation,” as saints of many different times and places are imagined in “conversation” with Mary and Jesus. The painting underwent a major restoration in 2005 at the Seattle Art Museum, where it was featured as the centerpiece of an exhibit on devotional art of the Renaissance. The original provenance of the painting, and how it came to St. James cathedral, is unknown, although it once hung in the cathedral's baptistery (now the Reconciliation Chapel) until it was moved to the cathedral chapel in 1950. Priests 1906–1910 – Monsignor Daniel A. Hanly 1910–1919 – Monsignor William J. Noonan 1919–1935 – Monsignor James G. Stafford 1935–1943 – Father William Henry O'Neill 1943–1954 – Father John Gallagher 1955–1973 – Bishop Thomas E. Gill 1973–1988 – Father William E. Gallagher 1988–present – Very Rev. Michael G. Ryan See also List of Catholic cathedrals in the United States List of cathedrals in the United States References External links Official Cathedral Site Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Seattle Official Site Interior and exterior photographs on Flickr: 1, 2, 3, 4 James Seattle Landmarks in Seattle Roman Catholic churches completed in 1907 Roman Catholic churches in Washington (state) Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Seattle Roman Catholic churches in Seattle First Hill, Seattle 1907 establishments in Washington (state) 20th-century Roman Catholic church buildings in the United States