Evangel. Nicodem. c. 2. Nicephor. l. i. c. 30.PROCULA, or Proscula, or Claudia Procula: This is said to be the Name of Pilate’s Wife. Vincent of Beauvais1 quotes the false-Gospel of Nicodemus, which assigns her this Name of Procula: But the Copy of this Gospel, printed by Fabricius, has not this Name; it has only Matrona ipsius Pilati procul posita: Yet Malehas in his Chronicon, Nicephorus, the false Lucius Dexter, call her Procula. Some of the Fathers2 seem to think, that she fear’d God, and that she was saved. Others3 will have it, that she embraced the Faith of Jesus Christ, and that she was of the Number of the Saints. As to the Dream she had on Acount of our Saviour, some think4 that it was suggested to her by5 the Devil, who was in Suspense about something, and was in Fear of the Subversion of his Empire. Others a impute it to a good Spirit.
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Footnotes
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Vincent. Bellovac. l. 7. c. 41. speculi historic. ↩
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Origen. in Matth. Chrysost. in Matth. Hilar. Can. 33. ↩
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Menolog. Græc. apud Cornel. ↩
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Evang. Nicod. Cyprian. seu alius Serm. de Passione. Athanas. tract. ad Maxim. l. 1. p. 163. Beda Anselm Hist. Scholast. ↩
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She is generally call’d Priscilla; yet she is call’d Prisca, 2 Tim. iv. 19. ↩