Patras started turning these stories into brief poems and began carving them onto the oak slabs.
He scrawled his first verse on a tomb around 1935.
He paints the oak slab blue and decorates it with floral borders and a riot of colors.
He then paints an image depicting the person’s life and composes a poem.
Pop alone decides what the picture will portray and what the verse will say.
Pop said that no one has ever complained about his verses.
“It’s the real life of a person.
The families actually want the true life of the person to be represented on the cross.”
