'Centurion' in the Bible

When the centurion who stood facing Jesus saw how he had cried out and breathed his last, he said, "This man certainly was the Son of God!"

Pilate was amazed to hear that Jesus had already died, so he summoned the centurion to ask him if he was in fact dead.

When he learned from the centurion that he was dead, he let Joseph have the corpse.