• the Early Christian Sarcophagus of Junius Bassus (c. 359) shows Pontius Pilate making a gesture to avert the evil eye (pictured, right) during his trial of Jesus?
• Gaius Pontius, the Samnite general and victor at the Battle of the Caudine Forks, is believed to be an ancestor of the Roman governor of Judea Pontius Pilate?

Facts on topics related to Pontius Pilate

Jesus

• 15th-century heralds attributed a coat of arms (pictured) to Jesus based on the instruments of the Passion?
• Bruce Barton, in his bestselling 1925 book, The Man Nobody Knows, portrayed Jesus as "the founder of modern business"?
• Mary Magdalene realized that Jesus had returned from the dead after his crucifixion in the Bible verse John 20:16?
• Gour Govinda Ray, Brahmo Samaj missionary and scholar specialising in Hinduism, attempted to compare Krishna with Christ?
• a sculpture of Jesus near Tiškevičiai Palace (pictured) in Palanga was torn down in 1948 and not reconstructed until 1993?
• according to the Gospel of Mark, Jesus was buried in one of the rock-cut tombs in ancient Israel (pictured)?
• actor Greg Kinnear (pictured) fills in for Jesus in Leonardo da Vinci's The Last Supper in the Parks and Recreation episode, "The Camel"?
• although the Apostles' Creed states that Jesus (pictured) is sitting at the right hand of God the Father, the New Testament also depicts him as standing and walking?
• devotees across faiths swarmed St. Michael's Church, Mumbai, as news of a reported "bleeding" Jesus picture spread in June 2008?
• in Revelation, Jesus holds seven stars in his right hand, which has been viewed as an implicit critique of a coin of Domitian which depicts his infant son with seven stars?

Gospel

• Codex Cyprius is one of the very few uncial manuscripts with the complete text of the four Gospels?
• Gatianus of Tours was one of seven bishops sent by Pope Fabian from Rome to Gaul to preach the Gospel?
• Kjell Fjalsett, Arnold Børud, Ivar Skippervold and Rune Larsen constitute the gospel group Frisk Luft, called the first Christian supergroup in Norway?
• Minuscule 113 (pictured) manuscript of the four Gospels contains 24 pictures?
• Minuscule 543, a manuscript of the four Gospels, has additional non-biblical material – Limits of the Five Patriarchates?
• the 1983 translation of the Gospel into Azerbaijani by Mirza Khazar has been republished five times in subsequent years?
• the fifth-century Syriac Curetonian Gospels found in Egypt represent a considerably older, independent textual tradition of the four gospels?
• the oldest surviving translation of the Gospels into English was made at St Mary and St Cuthbert (pictured), Chester-le-Street, England?

Disciple (Christianity)

• St Thomas Church, located at Palayoor, Kerala, was established in 52 AD by St. Thomas, one of the twelve close disciples of Jesus Christ?

Mary (mother of Jesus)

• Anne Juliana Gonzaga became a Servant of Mary following the death of her husband, Ferdinand II, Archduke of Austria in 1595, after receiving a vision of the Madonna, to whom her parents had prayed to cure her of a childhood illness?
• legend says that Osanna of Mantua miraculously learned to read just by looking at a piece of paper with the words Jesus and Mary written on it?
• the Moscow Kremlin's Church of the Deposition (pictured) is named after a Byzantine tradition that the robe of the Virgin Mary was taken to Constantinople?
• the Bandra Fair in Mumbai, India was established to commemorate finding a statue of Mary in the Arabian Sea?
• the Hortus conclusus or "enclosed garden" was both a title and attribute of Mary and a type of actual garden?
• the Monument of the Holy Mother of God (pictured) in Haskovo, southeastern Bulgaria, is the tallest statue of the Virgin Mary with the Infant Jesus in the world?
• the citizens of Morella, Spain, hold a sexennial nine-day celebration to commemorate their deliverance from the plague by the Virgin of Vallivana?