Crossword-Solution: CANOSSA 7 letters, 4 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 9

Three long days, from the 25th to the 28th of January of the year 1077, Henry, dressed as a penitent pilgrim (but with a warm sweater underneath his monkish garb), waited outside the gates of the castle of Canossa.

Munro ix The Toys of Peace 3 Louise 13 Tea 21 The Disappearance of Crispina Umberleigh 29 The Wolves of Cernogratz 39 Louis 49 The Guests 59 The Penance 67 The Phantom Luncheon 79 A Bread and Butter Miss 87 Bertie’s Christmas Eve 97 Forewarned 107 The Interlopers 119 Quail Seed 129 Canossa 141 The Threat 149 Excepting Mrs.

Behold, then, the melancholy, pitiable spectacle of this mighty monarch in the depth of winter--and a winter of unprecedented severity--crossing, in the garb of a pilgrim, the frozen Alps, enduring the greatest privations and fatigues and perils, and approaching on foot the gloomy fortress of Canossa (beyond the Po), in which Hildebrand had intrenched himself.

Moreover, the Prelate had gained the moral victory, even as Hildebrand did when the Emperor of Germany stooped as a suppliant in the fortress of Canossa.

Others disagreed very much indeed;--Henry IV.'s scene at Canossa, with Pope Hildebrand and the pious Countess (year 1077, Kaiser of the Holy Roman Empire waiting, three days, in the snow, to kiss the foot of excommunicative Hildebrand), has impressed itself on all memories! Poor Henry rallied out of that abasement, and dealt a stroke or two on Hildebrand; but fell still lower before long, his very Son going against him; and came almost to actual want of bread, had not the Bishop of Liege been good to him.