"Sometimes kids that come from poor families are sidelined at school. They need advocates and I have always tried to be that advocate, to make sure they are fairly treated, fed and have the money to do the things that other people do," she said.
George travelled to Europe this year with various aims and she spent a week in Lyon and another in Rome, places central to Aubert's life.
She wanted to know and understand more.
"I just wanted to have a picture of it."
Lyon is a large city in south/central France.
George found the little church around the corner from Aubert's childhood home.
It referenced Aubert, and George took her quilts to show the women in a rosary circle there.
She gave them a watercolour of the woman later known as Mother Mary Joseph Aubert, painted by Noleen Sommerville.
"They liked that."
She walked up the 800 steps to Lyon's hilltop church Notre-Dame de Fourvière, where Aubert would have looked out across the city.
She found the side chapel where Aubert's mother was healed of cancer.
She took rubbings of plaques, engravings and cracks in the marble.
Aubert's family had chosen a young man for her to marry, but she didn't want to.
She was influenced by priest Jean-Marie Vianney - later made a saint - who affirmed her in her mission.
She left for New Zealand in 1860, aged 25, without telling her parents.
She was with Bishop Pompallier, whose mission was to help Māori.
"I brought you here for my Maories. If you don't love them, go back where you came from," he told them.
Aubert was first in Auckland with him, then Hawke's Bay, then was asked to go to the Whanganui River in 1883.
By 1892 she had founded the Daughters of Our Lady of Compassion there, with a school, gardens, orchards and orphanage.
She made and sold herbal remedies.
Some used cannabis, and she is the first person known to have grown it in New Zealand.
She moved to Wellington and continued the same work, nursing the sick, taking in orphans and foundlings and walking the streets with a pram to collect donations.
"The bishops thought that was undignified. She thought it was good exercise," George said.
Aubert came into conflict with the church hierarchy.
She wanted to continue her work, but knew she would need the Pope's permission.
Given 50 pounds to pay for her passage she left New Zealand for Rome without telling anyone, knowing they would only stop her.
"She was a pretty strong woman."
She arrived in Rome in 1913, just before World War I broke out, and had to stay for six years and through two popes before finally getting permission to continue her work in her own way in April 1917.
In Rome, George stayed near a papal basilica.
She found the tombs of the two popes Aubert sought permission from, and visited the holy places she would have visited.
While Aubert was waiting in Rome, aged in her late 70s and 80s, she used her skills to work for the Italian Red Cross.
"They didn't think she could do the work. She helped victims of the Avezzano earthquake in 1915, and the sick and maimed from Roman slums. She ate lots of onions to keep her going," George said.
After getting permission from Pope Benedict XV to continue her work, Aubert returned to Wellington and extended it.
She died there in 1926, aged 91.
The process to make her a saint began in 2010.
In 2016 she was given the title of Blessed and now needs only a second miracle to attain sainthood.
"I'm just hopeful that Pope Francis may move that along," George said.
She took harakeke (flax) paper to Europe in order to make art works, but was too busy gathering information and walking kilometers.
Now she's mulling over the colours of France and Italy, the old books, fabrics, connections and communications, the "bridges between worlds".
"I imagine there might be another exhibition," she said.
