Pope Sylvester

Pope Sylvester, or Silvester may refer to:

  • Pope Sylvester I (314–335)
  • Pope Sylvester II (999–1003)
  • Pope Sylvester III (1045)
  • Antipope Sylvester IV (1105–1111)

Famous quotes containing the words pope and/or sylvester:

    Is it, in Heav’n, a crime to love too well?
    To bear too tender or too firm a heart,
    To act a lover’s or a Roman’s part?
    —Alexander Pope (1688–1744)

    On this I ponder where’er I wander,
    And thus grow fonder, sweet Cork, of thee;
    With thy bells of Shandon,
    —Francis Sylvester Mahony (1805–1866)