Martin Boos (25 December 1762 - 29 August 1825) was a German Roman Catholic theologian. He was born at Huttenried in Bavaria. Orphaned at the age of four, he was reared by an uncle at Augsburg, who finally sent him to the University of Dillingen, where he studied under Sailer, Zimmer, and Weber. There he laid the foundation of the modest piety by which his whole life was distinguished. He had followed the extreme practises of asceticism as a penance for sin, … Wikipedia
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