The Roman Disciples
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This group of high society Roman friends and relation of Princess Jeanne,[1] gradually formed a core of active proselytes.[2]
- Claudia Procula, patrician, wife of Pontius Pilate
- Albula Domitilla, freed Greek, trusted woman of Claudia
- Lydia, friend of Valeria and Johanna of Chuza
- Plautina, patrician relative of Claudia
- Valeria, mother of the young Faustina healed by Jesus
These women, from pagan backgrounds[3] and not Israelites, abandoned their former beliefs to follow Jesus and his teachings.
Notes and references[edit | edit source]
- ↑ Royal princess, descendant of the "valiant men of David" who joined him in the struggle against Saul, she became the wife of Chuza, steward of King Herod Antipas.
- ↑ In the Jewish religion, a proselyte was a person who converted from paganism to Judaism (the term originally referred to a foreigner living in the territory of Israel). Later, by extension, it came to designate a new adherent of a religion, in this case Christianity.
- ↑ Followers of religions that adhered to the polytheistic worships of the classical Greco-Roman world.