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| | Pelagius II |
 | | Pelagius had already sent to Constantinople the ablest of his clergy, the deacon Gregory, afterwards Gregory I, the Great. |
 | | As the pope's apocrisiary, or nuncio, the deacon had been commissioned to haunt the imperial palace day and night, never to be absent from it for an hour, and to strain every nerve to induce the emperor to send help to Rome. |
 | | To him Pelagius now dispatched letter after letter urging him to increased exertion. |
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