Pope Pelagius II
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Pope Pelagius II was the bishop of Rome from 26 November 579 to his death on 7 February 590.
Mosaic of Pelagius II with Saint Lawrence in San Lorenzo fuori le mura
Pope Gregory I
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Pope Gregory I, commonly known as Saint Gregory the Great, was the 64th Bishop of Rome from 3 September 590 until his death on 12 March 604.
Pope Pelagius II
…Pelagius believed to undermine the authority of the papacy. Pelagius fell victim to the plague that devastated Rome at the end of 590. His successor, Gregory I, thought his regulations of clerical celibacy too strict, and modified them to some extent. Media related to Pelagius II at Wikimedia Commons…
Miniature of Gregory the Great writing, in a 12th-century copy of his Dialogues
Mosaic from the Cefalù Cathedral
Illumination in a 12th-century manuscript of a letter of Gregory's to Leander of Seville
Augustine of Canterbury on his mission to Anglo-Saxon England