| ARIMATHEA | Joseph of ---, in the New Testament, a wealthy man who laid the body of Jesus in his own tomb (9) |
| NABOB | A wealthy man (who made his fortune in the Orient). |
| IFI | Gary Cooper, George Raft, Charles Laughton and WC Fields were all stars of this movie above a wealthy man who gives money to people to see how they react, ... Had A Million (2,1) |
| BEATITUDE | In the New Testament, any of eight distinctive sayings of Jesus in the Sermon on the Mount (9) |
| NICODEMUS | In the New Testament, a Pharisee who supported Jesus against the other Pharisees |
| BETAPIETA | Wager one's sculpture of the Virgin Mary cradling the body of Jesus? |
| COURTESAN | Concubine or mistress of a wealthy man (9) |
| MAGDALENE | Mary ___, follower of Jesus in the New Testament (9) |
| NAZARETH | A city in Israel, the home of Jesus in his youth according to the New Testament (8) |
| SANIGNATIO | The most well-known saint with this name is Loyola who founded the Society of Jesus in 1540, but the town of Son Servera, Mallorca commemorates a different personage when the mark the end of an 1820 p |
| TIMOTHY | In the New Testament, a disciple of Paul who became leader of the Christian community at Ephesus (7) |
| PIETA | A representation of Mary in sculpture or painting grieving over the body of Jesus after the crucifixion |
| RICHELIEU | Wealthy man (European statesman) (9) |
| PLUTOCRAT | Wealthy man (9) |
| ADDITIVES | Nowadays the wealthy man holding it gets extras |
| HOARE | "Henry the Magnificent" who laid out the gardens at Stourhead; or, his grandson, Richard, who acquired The Adoration of the Magi for said Wiltshire house in 1790 (5) |
| HOLYGRAIL | Legendary relic once owned by Joseph of Arimathea |
| PASCAL | "By space the universe embraces me and swallows me up like an atom, by thought I embrace the universe." He was a French mathematician who laid the foundation for the modern theory of probabilities. Wh |
| BARTHOLOMEW | One of the Twelve Apostles of Jesus in the New Testament; patron saint of tanners (11) |
| APOSTLES | In the New Testament, a series of books originally written as letters to the early Christians (8) |
