The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-11-01


 One of these was. along with her husband Valerian, Christian martyr In the reign of Alexander Severus. A popular version of the story of her life may be read in 'The Seconde Nonnes Tale" in Chaucer. It was she that made the name tremendously pop ular.
 She was faworite with later Rom ap matrons, and as she died singing. became the patron saint of music.
 The exhumation of her body by Pope Paschal l. in s20, when it was found In a perfect state of preservation. wrapt in tissue of gold, and the re- building of the church that had orig inally been built over her own house. gave new vogue to her name. so did the second exhumation in 1899. when the beautiful and celebrated statue of 'St. Caecilia lying dead" by Stanfano Maderno, was executed, in exact imi- tation of the attitude of her body at that time.
 Already popular on the Continent, the Conqueror's daughter, Cecily, who became Abbess of Caen. gave 1t vogue in England. The proud Ciss," Cicely Neville. the Rose of Raby,' who be- came Duchess of York, gave 1t great popularity in Yorkshire and Its bor- ders, This is shown especially by the
 
 from 1t on the Yorkshire Poll Tax List of 1929. Clss, Cess and Siss had been the popular abbrevations. Clsson, Cysson. Slssion and Syssoh were the forms of the metronymlc at that time. Sisss-doghter' was found also, for the girls surname.
 After the Reformation the personal name declined for a time and cis be- came a generic name for a mifkmaid. Giaa a ha ry and Sissy is still alive.
 Sisson, the son of Siss. of Caecilia' thus derives his name from the Latin Caecilia, femine of Caecllius. The old gems claimed descent from mythical hero Caeculus whence, as they claimed. their name. However, that may be. It does not affect matters much. for both Caecilus and Caeculus are derived from the Latin caecus' blind, sightless.' This Is cognate with the Irish caech. Cymric coeg, Cornish culc. Gothic heihs, all meaning 'one-eyed.' Ar nenian caig, night and Sankrit keka- ras. 'squint-eyed leering-' The 'one- eyed seems to have been the radical meaning.
 cass, Case, Cash, Cast.
 The surnames Cass and Case. when English, are metronymics signifying the son of Cassandra.'
 The story of the unfortunate prin- cess of Troy, fairest of the daughters of Prlam, and of her unblest prophetic power was spread abroad in Britain by 'Le Roman de Troie" of Benoit de Sainte More a French trouvere of the twelfth century and by a prose version of 1t plagiarized and published as the ''Historia Troiana" by the Sicllian Guido delle Colonne. The alliterative 'Geste Hystoriale' and Lydgate's 'SeIRe of Troye' made 1t still better known.
 The whole cycle of Trojan legends was><popular In Britain whose natives were taught at the time to believe in their descent from a Trojan colony led thither by Brutus. a great-grand son of AEneas. and that he had given his name to the Island.
 Consequently Cassandra became a popular girls name in the England of the thirteenth and fourteenth cen turies as attested by the numerous entries of Cassandre, fl. Cassandre, Casse. Casson. Case, etc., in such early record as the Hundred Rolls (1237), Kirby's Quest (t327), and the Poll Tax List of the West Riding of Yorkshire for 1879.
 Tn the last named district, Cass is still a common surname. Case is most frequent in Norfolk and Cash is the variant more often found In Cheshire. Cast Is a rare American variant c
 The protothefne of Cassaidra is a. aorist kassasthai, ito attain distisic- tion, make one's self famous The. same theme is found In other Greek names as Cassiepeia, mother of An dromeda, CassiB Ione, daughter of odys- seus, Cassamenos. King of Naxos.