(1997). In these two studies Markus showed how the lives of these two figures intersected despite the continuing transformation of Christianity. From 1991 to 1995, Markus was President of the International Association of Patristic Studies. He was Visiting Professor at Notre Dame University in 1993. A festschrift, The Limits of Ancient Christianity: Essays on Late Antique Thought and Culture, was published in honor of Markus in 1999. Markus was appointed OBE in 2000. Death Markus spent his last days in Beeston, Nottingham, and died of prostate cancer at City Hospital, Nottingham on 8 December 2010. He was survived by his wife, three children and four grandchildren. Personal life Markus married Margaret Catherine Bullen in Manchester on 13 August 1955, with whom he had two sons and one daughter. A Roman Catholic, Margaret was the daughter of John Joseph Bullen, who managed a shop for the Co-operative Wholesale Society in the Wirral. Selected works References Sources Further reading 1924 births 2010 deaths Academics of the University of Liverpool Academics of the University of Nottingham Alumni of the University of Manchester British people of Hungarian-Jewish descent British socialists Converts to Roman Catholicism from Lutheranism Fellows of the British Academy Institute for Advanced Study people Hungarian emigrants to the United Kingdom Hungarian expatriates in Switzerland Members of the Dominican Order Officers of the Order of the British Empire People from Budapest Presidents of the Ecclesiastical History Society