> A related question: how does the West represent Pilate in the Middle
> Ages? I have read that the Abyssinian Copts regarded him as a saint.
> Does any of that translate into the West?
>
> Tom Izbicki
He is *usually* represented as a Roman military commander. In the
mosaics of the apse arch of S. Maria Maggiore in Rome, dating from
the mid-5th century, however, King Herod is represented with a halo.
Jim Bugslag
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