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![[Picture: Emperor of Germany Three Days at the Pope’s Gate]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/Burton-WonderfulProdigies/pages/p092a-barefoot-for-three-days/p092a-barefoot-for-three-days-q85-1141x984.jpg "[Picture: Emperor of Germany Three Days at the Pope’s Gate]")
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Emperor of Germany Three Days at the Pope’s Gate, in Canossa Castle, Canossa, Reggio Emilia, Italy more
popes, bare feet, people, royalty, kings, doors, castles, crowns, boys, battlements
The woodcut illustrated the Emperor of Germany, King Henry IV, waiting barefoot in the snow for three days along with his wife and son, outside Canossa Castle in italy, to beg the Pope for forgiveness—so incredibly elevated in power and corrupt were the Popes of the time. This was in the year 1077.
The king stands outside the castle door, with its raised portcullis and round tower with battlements; the pope and other digniatries look down from above at the king, his wide, and the barefoot, bare-legged boy. In the far background high on a tower we see two people kissing, a symbol of the debauchery of the Pope.
Pope Gregory 7th … got the Emperor at such an advantage, that he was fain to come to his Castle at Canusum, with his Empress and son bare-footed in the cold of Winter, and there to wait three days fasting, til he might have Audience, which at length h obtained by the mediation of Madam Matilda, one of the Popes Wenches, or St Peters Daughter, (as they called her) who left her Husband to live with this Holy Father; when he prononced Sentence of Excommunication against the Emperor, the new seat whereon he sate, unexpectedly rent in pieces (p, 82)
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