Otto von Bismarck versus Pope Pius IX: “We're not going to Canossa!”
Otto von Bismarck versus Pope Pius IX: “We’re not going to Canossa!”
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Years ago 150 the Kulturkampf began in German Rich and with it a reorganization of the relationship between state and church.
At the 14. May 1077 the Prussian Prime Minister and German Chancellor Otto von Bismarck exclaimed in the Reichstag: “After We’re not going to Canossa”. What was behind this exclamation, which evokes the penance of Emperor Henry IV in 1077 remembered, in which he deeply humbled himself before Pope Gregory VII in order to keep the imperial dignity?
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