Vindicta Salvatoris
The work also includes a retelling of the story of Saint Veronica's miraculous veil, imprinted with the face of Jesus, from the slightly earlier Cura sanitatis Tiberii legend.
In The Vengeance of the Saviour, Nathan, an Ishmaelite (Arab), leaves Judea and travels the Empire to collect a tribute for Emperor Tiberius.
There, Tyrus is a local ruler "in the kingdom of Aquitania, for a city of Libia which is called Burdigala"; he is ill with cancer in his nose and a mangled face.
Nathan tells Tyrus of Jesus's miracles, trial, execution, saving of the human race from hell, and resurrection.
He swears that if he had known earlier, he would have avenged his death, killed Jesus's enemies, and hung their bodies from a dry tree.
Caiaphas and Herod's son Archelaus are stoned to death, and Pontius Pilate is imprisoned and thrown in an iron cage in Damascus.
Angered at what he has learned, Volosianus has Pilate thrown in an iron cage (again) for killing the perfect man, and orders his punishment by the foulest death.
It has been proposed that perhaps the author was using a unique spelling of Albi in Southern France with "Libiae", which would also explain the reference to Burdigala (Bourdeaux) and Aquitania.
Herod the Great, here referred to as still King of Judea, died around 3 or 4 BC; Tiberius's reign ended in 37 AD; Vespasian and Titus conducted the First Jewish–Roman War from 66 to 73 CE; and Roman emperors did not convert to Christianity until the time of Constantine.
[7] Constantin von Tischendorf was one of the earliest and most influential compilers of ancient Church documents and legends, finding old manuscripts and codices and putting them in modern printed form.
He published a version of the Vindicta Salvatoris in his 1853 (2nd edition in 1876) work Evangelia apocrypha, a collection of Greek and Latin texts.
In this version Titus is sub-king of Bordeaux and Pilate is eventually imprisoned in Vienne (both cities in modern France), where he is kept in darkness and is forbidden any cooked food.
