I am Claudia Procula, wife of the man who condemned Jesus Christ to death. I lived during the time of Christ’s Crucifixion and Resurrection and was among those first believers to be called a Christian.   I witnessed the miracle of Jarius’ daughter and survived personal exile and persecution.  My chronicle of those days was recorded after Pilate’s exile, and over the millennia has been safeguarded within church archives, carefully preserved as “The Hand of Pilate’s Wife”.

Synopsis

Shortly before Christ was crucified, Claudia Procula had a dream.  It was a harbinger of the terrible consequences that awaited her husband, Pontius Pilate, should he participate in the execution of Jesus.

Reference: Matthew 27:19 (New Testament)

Within 4 years of the crucifixion, Pontius had been called to Rome to answer for his many misdeeds.  After a lengthy trial, Pontius and Claudia were stripped of all possessions and exiled to a mountainous town in ancient France.  Living in great poverty and shame, their life was a daily struggle.  During this harsh period, Claudia purportedly penned her manuscript.

The manuscript describes her life in Jerusalem, her personal impression of Jesus Christ, the miracle she witnessed, and her own conversion to Christianity. It also recounts the horrific circumstances surrounding His Sentencing, and addresses the effect His Death and Resurrection had on those immediately involved.

As Claudia watched Christ’s death walk to Golgotha, she mentions eerie changes in the surroundings.  The sky filled with dark angry clouds, earthquakes shook the palace and a thick fog began to form.  Later that day, her terrified servant breathlessly announced the tearing of the Temple Curtain.

Claudia’s Scroll will also portray the Ritual Burial Scene and the Resurrection Event which followed. The spectacular simulation of the Resurrection is based on years of research and cutting edge technology, and will be the first time ever presented on film.

Structure

The structure of the film is assembled upon biblical truths, historical fact, and plausible fiction.  Built into the story is the first century struggle for power and the tangle of disinformation set forth by the parties involved.  A spotlight is cast into the souls of these central characters, exposing the underpinnings of their true motives.  The moviegoer will leave the theater with a personal knowledge of these monumental events, having shared them vicariously through the key players.

In recreating the Resurrection Event, we have culled scripture accounts and cutting edge data from the Shroud of Turin.  Our resources include world-class theologians, particle physicists, forensic pathologists, optical engineers, physical chemists, molecular biologists, statistical mathematicians, and the foremost authority of Jerusalem botany.

Recent testing by Dr. Guilio Fanti has dated the Shroud to within the Resurrection time frame.  The overwhelming conclusion suggests that the Shroud of Turin was indeed the burial cloth of Jesus the Nazarene.  Odds that the man on the Shroud was not Jesus are calculated in the range of 87 million to one by Dr. Gary Habermas, to an aggregate probability of one in 200 billion crucified people by professor of mathematical physics, Dr. Bruno Barberis (Shroud, Carbon-Dating and Calculus of Probabilities)..

Jesuit priest and engineer, Paul de Gail, stated, “The odds are one chance in 225 billion that the man on the Shroud and Jesus were different people.”  Italian physicist, Tino Zeuli, quoted de Gail in the 1974 issue of Sindon, likening it to “The possibility of a brick in the street suddenly sprouting wings and taking off.”