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While Mary the Jewess was sitting with the Galilean Rabbi in the moonlit garden at Bethany, Claudia Procula, the Roman noblewoman, was spending her last evening before the Passover in her gorgeously appointed apartment in the palace of Herod the Great. On one side of this pillared chamber, high-hung heavy curtains drawn apart, disclosed a sleeping apartment with a bed and couches.

This incident has taken a strong hold of the Christian imagination and given rise to all kinds of guesses. Tradition has handed down the name of Pilate's wife as Claudia Procula; and it is said that she was a proselyte of the Jewish religion; as high-toned heathen ladies in that age not infrequently became when circumstances brought the Old Testament into their hands.

His grandmother on his mother's side was Serrana Procula, who belonged to the township of Patavia. You know the character of that place well, Serrana was a model of austere living even to the people of Patavia. His uncle was Publius Acilius, a man of almost unique weight, judgment, and honour.

Edite, bebite, collegiales, Post multa sæcula procula nulla!” “Eat ye then, drink ye then, social companions, Centuries hence and your cups are no more!” The mildest of the clerks comes out well with Kotzebue’s philosophical song:— “Es kann ja nicht immer so bleiben, Hier unter den wechselnden Mond; Es blüht eine Zeit und verwelket, Was mit uns die Erde bewhont.”

Was he not rewarded for his treachery with the sharp-edged pilatus which gave to him the new name 'Pilate'? Did not the son of this heathen dog follow Germanicus and through him creep in among the Romans of high estate? Did he not wed Claudia Procula, granddaughter of Augustus? And shortly thereafter was he not made Procurator at Jerusalem? Who should sit in state in Herod's palace in Jerusalem?

Aye, most noble mistress, the Jew hath given me freedom." "Freedom! How the heart doth hunger for freedom freedom from one's self." And she crossed the room and recrossing stopped again before the slave. "My scarred eunuch," she said. "I listen, my mistress." "It is not beneath the dignity of Claudia Procula to glean gems when she findeth them shining in her path.

His grandmother, on the mother's side, is Serrana Procula, of Patavium:12 you are no stranger to the character of its citizens; yet Serrana is looked upon, even among these correct people, as an exemplary instance of strict virtue, Acilius, his uncle, is a man of almost exceptional gravity, wisdom, and integrity. In short, you will find nothing throughout his family unworthy of yours.

Procula was abashed, and served out her hoards thereupon willingly to the poor; and a little while afterwards, to the astonishment of all, vessels came down the Danube, laden with every kind of merchandise. Then the wild German horsemen swept around the walls, and carried off human beings and cattle, as many as they could find.

The soldiers moved back a step and looked in wonderment as she spoke again. "A Roman? More than a Roman is Claudia Procula, wife of Pontius Pilate! Knowest thou, bone-breakers of the Tower of Antonio, who Pilate is?

Then he made a noose, very carefully, that it might not come undone, and settling it well under the chin, he tied the other end of the girdle to it and swung himself from the stone. In the apartment of Claudia Procula, Mary and the wife of the procurator stood face to face. The apartment itself overlooked Jerusalem.