Word: canossa
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...perfectly useless for a present-day Pope to act like a Pope of the earlier days and expect a second Canossa" (i. e. expect that George V will do penance before Pope Pius XI as Roman Emperor Henry IV did penance before Pope Gregory VII at Canossa, Italy...