From the account by his deacon, Agiulf, who was there Pope Pelagius died of the plague in February, 590 A.D. His reluctant successor, then only a deacon, who was to be known as St Gregory the Great, ordered penances and processions – the normal recourse for many centuries – to plead for itsContinue reading “Gregory of Tours Describes the Plague at Rome 590 A.D”