Have you heard of Claudia Procula or Saint Procula? Probably not. But if I introduce her to you as Mrs. Pontius Pilate, she would sound familiar i.e. if you are a Christian and one who has read the Gospels in the Bible. She is the unnamed wife of Pontius Pilate that we read of in the Gospel of Matthew....
While Pilate was sitting on the judge's seat, his wife sent him this message: "Don't have anything to do with that innocent man, for I have suffered a great deal today in a dream because of him."(Matthew 27:19)
Pilate did not heed the warning though.
Origen, the early Christian theologian suggested that Claudia had become a Christian. The name "Claudia" appears only once in the New Testament, in the 2 Timothy 4:21: Eubulus greets you, and so do Pudens, Linus, Claudia and all the brothers. "Procula" is recognized as a saint in the Eastern Orthodox Church and the Ethiopian Orthodox Church.
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