AtDDtA1: Randolph St. Cosmo

[Dave Monroe]

   "When the ship reached cruising altitude [...], Randolph St. Cosmo,
the ship commander, anounced, 'Now secure the Special Sky Detail' ..."
(AtD, Pt. I, p. 3)


Randolph

RANDOLF   m   English
>From the Germanic elements rand meaning "rim (of a shield)" and wulf
meaning "wolf".

http://www.behindthename.com/nm/r.php

The boy's name Randolph is pronounced RAN-dolf. It is of Old German
origin, and its meaning is "wolf shield." From the same root as
Randall. English politician Lord Randolph Churchill.

Randolph has 7 variant forms: Randal, Randall, Randell, Randolf,
Randy, Ranolf and Ranulfo.

http://www.behindthename.com/php/view.php?name=randolf


Randolph St.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Randolph_Street

Site of the Haymarket Tragedy
Address: 151-199 N. Desplaines St.
Date Designated a Chicago Landmark: March 25, 1992

Circular A decade of strife between labor and industry culminated here
in a confrontation that resulted in the tragic death of both workers
and policemen. On May 4, 1886, spectators at a labor rally had
gathered around the mouth of Crane's Alley (east side of Desplaines,
just north of Randolph), named for an industrial plant that stands
east of the site. A contingent of police approaching on Desplaines
Street were met by a bomb thrown from just south of the alley. The
resultant trial of eight activists gained worldwide attention for the
labor movement, and initiated the tradition of "May Day" labor rallies
in many cities

http://www.ci.chi.il.us/Landmarks/S/SiteHaymarket.html


St. Cosmo

COSMO

Gender: Masculine

Usage: Italian, German, English

Pronounced: KAWZ-mo (English)   [key]
Italian form of the Greek name Κοσμος (Kosmos), which was derived from
κοσμος (kosmos) meaning "order, decency". Saint Cosmo was martyred
with his twin brother Damian in the 4th century. They are the patron
saints of physicians.

http://www.behindthename.com/php/view.php?name=cosmo

The Lives of Saints Cosmo and Damian

http://www.catholic-forum.com/saints/golden279.htm

Naples, Dec. 30, 1781.

SIR,

HAVING last made a curious discovery, that in a Province of this
Kingdom, and not fifty miles from its Capital, a sort of devotion is
still paid to PRIAPUS, the obscene Divinity of the Ancients (though
under another denomination), I thought it circumstance worth
recording; particularly, as it offers a fresh proof of the similitude
of the Popish and Pagan Religion ...

[...]


The following is the account of the Fete of St. Cosmo and Damiano, as
it actually was celebrated at Isernia, on the confines of Abruzzo, in
the Kingdom of Naples, so late as in the year of our Lord 1780....

[...]

The oil of St.Cosmo is in high repute for its invigorating quality,
when the loins, and parts adjacent, are anointed with it....

http://www.sacred-texts.com/sex/dwp/dwp01.htm

http://kspark.kaist.ac.kr/Jesus/Christian%20Phallism.htm

Phallic practices continued long after the end of the Middle Ages. In
1786, the British Minister in Naples wrote to the president of the
Royal Society explaining how, in a little explored part of Isernia, he
had found the peasants worshipping "the great toe of St. Cosmo" (i.e.
the phallus) with appropriate rites. During the three-day feast,
peasants, chiefly women, would present waxen ex votos, kissing them
before giving them to the priest and saying "Santo Cosimo benedetto,
cosi lo voglio" (Blessed St. Cosmo, that's how I want it to be). Men
would present their afflicted members to the priest to be anointed
with oil, and 1,400 flasks of oil were consumed every year for this
purpose.

http://ourcivilisation.com/smartboard/shop/taylorgr/sxnhst/chap14.htm