HE was a member of the Third Order of St. Francis. 

After enduring great hardships in prison, he died in chains for the faith in the year 1628.[1] 

Anno 1628, upon the 2nd of November, being Sunday at night, the titular Bishop of Down and Connor died in the Castle of Dublin. 

He was accused by one Patrick O’Mulvany, a Popish priest, of a conspiracy to bring in foreign powers. 

The Tuesday following, at four o’clock in the morning, he was brought forth and buried in St. Warborough’s churchyard.’ 

Hunting of the Romish Fox, p.195

On the 7 of September of the following year, the Archbishop elect of Armagh, the Archbishop of Dublin, and the Bishop elect of Kilmore, in a letter to Pope Urban VIII,., pray him to appoint Bonaventure Magennis, O.S.F., to the See, and they add: 

‘We pity the desolate condition of the church of Down and Connor more than that of any other, for it has been deprived of two most illustrious champions of the faith one after the other.’[2]

[1] Anno 1628, upon the 2nd of November, being Sunday at night, the titular Bishop of Down and Connor died in the Castle of Dublin.
He was accused by one Patrick O’Mulvany, a Popish priest, of a conspiracy to bring in foreign powers.
The Tuesday following, at four o’clock in the morning, he was brought forth and buried in St. Warborough’s churchyard.’ Hunting of the Romish Fox, p.195
[2] Brady’s Epis. Succession, .270. Theo there was Cornelius O’Devany. See p. 238, antea

Please pray for final perseverance for all of us!
May the martyrs of old inspire us all.