Was pontius pilate catholic

Please help support the mission of New Advent and get the full contents of this website as an instant download. And this Volusianus, having heard the emperor's command, immediately departed, and came to Pilate , as he had been commanded. Pilate , hearing this, was very much afraid, knowing that through envy he had caused Him to be put to death.

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Pilate answered the same messenger thus, saying: This man was a malefactor, and a man who drew to himself all the people; so a council of the wise men of the city was held, and I caused him to be crucified. And this messenger returning to his inn, met a certain woman named Veronica, who had been a friend of Jesus; and he said: O woman , a certain physician who was in this city, who cured the sick by a word alone, why have the Jews put him to death?

And she began to weep, saying: Ah me! My lord, my God and my Lord, whom Pilate for envy delivered, condemned, and ordered to be crucified. Then he, being exceedingly grieved, said: I am vehemently grieved that I am unable to accomplish that for which my lord had sent me. And Veronica said to him: When my Lord was going about preaching, and I, much against my will, was deprived of His presence, I wished His picture to be painted for me, in order that, while I was deprived of His presence, the figure of His picture might at least afford me consolation.

And when I was carrying the canvas to the painter to be painted, my Lord met me, and asked whither I was going.

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And when I had disclosed to Him the cause of my journey, He asked of me the cloth, and gave it back to me impressed with the image of His venerable face. Therefore, if your lord will devoutly gaze upon His face, he shall obtain immediately the benefit of health. And he said to her: Is a picture of such a sort procurable by gold or silver?

She said to him: No; but by the pious influence of devotion. Volusianus therefore came with Veronica to Rome , and said to Tiberius the emperor : Jesus, whom you have been longing for, Pilate and the Jews have delivered to an unjust death, and have through envy affixed to the gibbet of the cross.