Wisdom

David's son and the third king of Israel; the temple-builder and wisdom-king, to whom Psalms 72 and 127 are ascribed.

The wealthy fool of Carmel — "as his name is, so is he" — who repaid David's protection with insult; his heart died within him when Abigail told him what her wisdom had averted.

Came from the ends of the earth with hard questions to test Solomon's wisdom and confessed the half had not been told her; Jesus cited her as a witness against his generation…

Paschasius was a monk and deacon of the monastery at Dumium, near Braga in Galicia, in northwestern Spain, in the sixth century. He was born about 515 and died around 580. He…

Anthony was born about 251 in Coma, a village in Middle Egypt, to Christian farmers with good land. He spoke Coptic, the Egyptian language, and never learned Greek. He would…

Nicholas was born about 1232 at Gorran, in Brittany. He entered the Dominican order at Paris around 1250 and spent his life in the order's houses in France. He was prior of the…

Theophilus was the sixth bishop of Antioch in Syria, serving roughly from 169 to the early 180s. Antioch was the third city of the empire and the place where the disciples were…

Augustine was born on 13 November 354 at Thagaste in Roman North Africa — Souk Ahras, in modern Algeria. His father Patricius was a pagan town councillor of modest means…