go to Canossa

"Going to Canossa"

The thought of that hawklike, hale, seemingly ageless old man going to Canossa was too absurd for me to entertain it even for a moment.

It was a recognition of political realities, not an equivalent to Henry IV going to Canossa on bended knee before Pope Gregory VII.

Otto von Bismarck, during his so-called "Kulturkampf," assured his countrymen that "We will not go to Canossa - neither in body nor in spirit!"

She went to Canossa Convent, Mumbai, pursued her B.Com at Sydenham College, Mumbai, and discontinued in her third year.

In December 1985, Bush went to Canossa by accepting an invitation to a dinner in Manchester, New Hampshire held in honor of the late William Loeb, the former publisher of the Manchester "Union Leader".

At the meeting, von Ribbentrop offered to allow Cardinal August Hlond return to Poland, which the New York Times reported as "the nearest approach to a temporal power's 'going to Canossa' that has been seen in recent times."

The latter, however, since Otto von Bismarck "went to Canossa," have sunk into a respectable but comparatively obscure sect, and Febronianism, though it still has some hold on opinion within the Church in the chapters and universities of the Rhine provinces, is practically extinct in Germany.

He was the warmest opponent of the State in the Kulturkampf provoked by Prince Otto von Bismarck after the publication of the Vatican decrees, and was largely instrumental in compelling that statesman to retract the pledge he had rashly given, never to "go to Canossa."

"The message from Washington is, 'You go to Canossa or you are banished to the darkness outside,' " a reference to the site of the Italian castle where the Holy Roman emperor Henry IV did penance to persuade Pope Gregory VII to lift the excommunication against him.