Plautilla (d. c. 67) is a name attached in late antique and medieval tradition to a pious Roman matron associated with the martyrdom of the Apostle Paul. In apocryphal narratives and later retellings, she encounters Paul as he is led to execution outside the city and lends him her veil so he may blindfold himself; after his beheading, the veil is miraculously returned to her.
Plautilla (d. c. 67) is a name attached in late antique and medieval tradition to a pious Roman matron associated with the martyrdom of the Apostle Paul. In apocryphal narratives and later retellings, she encounters Paul as he is led to execution outside the city and lends him her veil so he may blindfold himself; after his beheading, the veil is miraculously returned to her.
== Sources and legend == The earliest detailed version of the veil motif appears in the late antique/early medieval apocryphon known as the Martyrium Pauli (Martyrdom of Paul), transmitted under the name of Linus; section 16 recounts that Paul "bound his eyes with Plautilla's veil" before execution.
Discovered by embedding cosine similarity (sentence-transformers MiniLM, 384-dim).