Type: Note Card with envelope
Size: 5x7
Price: $5.00 each
The note card line include some of Frank's most popular artwork.
Each one is printed on high quality 5 by 7 card stock, is left blank inside, and includes an envelope.

In the 16th century, when the Jesuits arrived with the conquistadores in South America they found, to their astonishment, a blooming vine which they believed to be the same flower which according to Christian legend was seen growing upon the cross in one of the many visions of St. Francis of Assissi (1182 – 1226).

The flower was named by the Jesuit Fathers Flos Passionis – Passionflower, flower of the five wounds. The organs of the passionflower are supposed to represent the symbols and instruments of the Passion. In their symbolic meaning the ten petals represent the ten faithful apostles; two are absent because Peter deceived and denied his Lord and Judas betrayed Him. The corona symbolizes the crown of thorns, and the five stamens the five wounds. The ovary signifies the hammer, and the three styles, with their rounded heads, the three nails.

The natives who had been cultivation these vines since time immemorial were feasting upon its yellow, egg like fruits, and the Jesuit Fathers interpreted this as a heavenly sign; that the Indians were hungering for Christianity. They threw themselves with great religious zeal into converting these yearning heathens to Christianity and succeeded in an amazingly short time.

Today however we know this same vine as the May Pop, and as a child I also did eat of the vine, a sweet yet tart pulp around many seeds.