Passion Flower

The traditional reverence for this favourite flower is due to a fancied resemblance of its tints and various parts to the instruments of Christ’s Pa ion; also because it remains open for three days, corresponding to the period between the Last Supper and the Resurrection. Pa ionists. A mi ionary Order founded by St Francis de Paulo, otherwise “St Paul of the Cro ,” for the preaching of “Christ’s Pa ion and Him Crucified.”