English-Finnish translations for canossa

• Canossa

Definition of canossa

• A ''comune'and castle town in the Province of Reggio Emilia, Emilia-Romagna, northern Italy, famed as the site where the Holy Roman Emperor Henry IV did penance in 1077, standing three days bare-headed in the snow, in order to reverse his excommunication by Pope Gregory VII

Related words

• go to Canossa
• humiliation of Canossa
• road to Canossa