Pope Pelagius has been the papal name of two popes of the Roman Catholic Church.
- Pope Pelagius I (556–561)
- Pope Pelagius II (579–590)
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“He saw, he wish’d, and to the prize aspir’d.
Resolv’d to win, he meditates the way,
By force to ravish, or by fraud betray;
For when success a lover’s toil attends,
Few ask, if fraud or force attain’d his ends.”
—Alexander Pope (1688–1744)