Patience is from the Latin patientia ("endurance, forbearance") — a Christian theological virtue. **A characteristic Puritan virtue name introduced in 17th-century England and brought to colonial New England by the Pilgrims** — alongside Charity, Mercy, Honor, Verity, and Constance. **Patience Worth** — the alleged "spirit" that the St. Louis housewife Pearl Curran said dictated novels and poems to her via Ouija board from 1913 to 1937, producing approximately 4,000 poems and 7 novels. **Saint Patience of Cardiff** — early Welsh Christian martyr.
Featured in countless 17th-century New England town records as one of the most popular Puritan feminine names.
Patience reduces to three — the number of Puritan virtue.