 Charlotte Brontë wrote the poem " Pilate 's Wife 's Dream " in 1846 . The biblical scholar Paul Maier , in Pontius Pilate : A Biographical Novel ( 1968 ) , attempts to take what is known from the documented record and from there construct a fictional narrative as connective material . Maier refers to Pilate 's wife as " Procula , " arguing that the name " Claudia " only comes from a later tradition . In his historical novel " The Advocate " , Randy Singer refers to Pilate 's wife as " Procula " and tells of an earlier vision in which she had seen and been healed by Jesus . 
