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Marmaduke Bowes
martyr at York
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Feast: 26 November (not on the universal Roman calendar; kept in the Roman Martyrology or local calendars)
Born
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unknown
Died
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unknown
Beatified
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not on record
Canonised
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not yet
Who they were
At York in England, the blessed martyrs Hugh Taylor, priest, and Marmaduke Bowes, who went to the scaffold under Queen Elizabeth I, the first, still young, for having entered England as a priest, the other, an old man, for having helped him.
The miracles
As a martyr he was raised to the altars without a miracle.
Why that counted as sanctity
The Roman Martyrology remembers him on 26 November as an old man who went to the scaffold at York under Queen Elizabeth I for having helped a priest.
Connected on this site
- Hugh Taylor Blessed“The next day Marmaduke Bowes was hanged for having sheltered him.” — this site's research
Sources
- Roman Martyrology, 26 November (Italian Bishops' Conference, Santo del giorno)
- Wikidata Q18529059 — dates, feast day and identifiers (CC0)
Checked against the sources listed on 22 September 2026. Corrections welcome.