If you made a Venn diagram with three circles and the first circle was the

Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and the second circle was was the

barberian Martin Luther King Jr. in the second circle was the wife of Pontius pilot

and the third circle was the barbarians in the snugly duckling.

The shaded area in between would be they had a dream.

And because we're working our way through the book of Matthew, currently in Matthew chapter

27, I'm most interested in the one that Pontiusch's pilot's wife had.

She's an interesting character historically.

There's a lot of legend that's arisen around her.

And so it's a little difficult to separate fact from fiction.

The only mention of her in the Bible is what we get in Matthew 27,

where it says, while Pilot 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've suffered a great deal in a dream because of him.

There's a little bit of ambiguity in that passage, right?

Why is that in here? What was she actually thinking? And I think the ambiguity of this

premonition and this little verse right here is part of what lends to all of this historical religious curiosity that comes along with

her. History tells us that her name is Prokla or Prokula which I know sounds a lot like count chocula and so it always bothers me to say that I feel

uncomfortable the Romans would have called her Prokula and in the East they would have called her Procla in the Greek-speaking part of the world

and to this day it would be Saint Procla because though she is not venerated by the

Catholic Church, the Church associated with Rome, she is venerated in a whole bunch of different

Eastern traditions, including the big one, the Eastern Orthodox churches in general.

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