"Perhaps best known" among fiction concerning Pilate's wife is Gertrud von Le Fort's 1955 novel ("Pilate's Wife"). Le Fort depicts the suffering in Claudia Procula's dream as imagining many people across the centuries praying the Nicene Creed's words "Suffered under Pontius Pilate, was crucified, died, and was buried." When Pilate and Procula return to Rome, she begins secretly attending Christian gatherings. She takes on Pilate's guilt for his execution of Jesus and he executes her as well, in a scene in which she is baptized in blood and made a martyr.