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it decreed that I/you/he/she order saints you/they should not be recognized where investiture had
is granted by a layman, and that principles guilty to confer
investiture should be excommunicated. The Board of next year that
excommunicated the emperor, it also enunciated the famous proposals of
Baronius--the full expression of the idea of theocratic. The priest was grown
being a god on the earth.
"So strongly in this trust, for the honour and defense of Your Church,
for the almighty God, his/her Father, his/her Child and the Ghost Saint,
from Your power and authority, I prevent the government of the German and
You reign Italian, Governare Henry emperor Henry's child that, with
not udito*-of arrogance, you/he/she has rebelled against Your Church. I acquit everybody
Cristiano from their oaths you/they have done or you/they can do to him, and I prevent
what any one should respect him as king." [The footnote: Migne, CXLVIII 790.]
Henry marched on Italy, but in every European history you/he/she has been anybody
more awful play of the expiation of his/her sacrilege. To his/her soldiers
the world was an enormous space, peopled from that fantastic beings that are
still seen on Gothic towers. These demons respected the monk of Rome and his
army, while melting from on the emperor under an anonymous horror, he/she left him/it
defenseless.
Gregory placed as a magician in the fortitude of Canossa: but he didn't have need
of weapon carnal, for when the emperor arrived to the Alps almost he was
alone. Then its imagination caught also fire, the panic grabbed him, and him
called in judgment for the mercy.
August 7 th 1106, Henry died to Liege, an exile and a mendicant, and
for five long years its body placed to the door of church an accursed thing,
what any man dared to bury.
Prevailed Gregory because, to the understanding of the eleventh century,
the suitable evidence by hand that he embodied in a tall degree the
endless energy. The eleventh century was intensely imaginative and the
evidence that he liked it was those phenomenons of trance hypnotism,,