Prong - Steady Decline

The “Listovskie legends” associated with Lake Como did not end there. According to the most famous of them, List and Marie, in memory of the “cloudless” days spent on the lake, called their daughter Cosima - “in honor” of the lake. First, from an etymological point of view, such a statement is quite controversial. Secondly, Liszt, being a deeply religious person, gave all his children exclusively the names of Catholic saints, but not geographical objects! Cosima is a feminine form of the name Cosmos (Cosmos, it. Cosimo - Cosimo), the name of the holy healer, unbounded, who lived with his brother Damian in the second half of the 3rd - beginning of the 4th century, performed miracles of healing and presumably suffered a martyrdom in 303 through chopping off the head. For some reason, the researchers did not pay much attention to the factwhich subsequently, Cosima in her "Diaries" always celebrated September 27 as "the day of my name day." (The Catholic Church honored the memory of the holy martyrs Cosmas and Damian on September 27, while by decision of the Second Vatican Council (1962–1965), which was reforming the liturgical calendar, their veneration was not postponed until September 26.)