Boos, MARTIN

Boos, MARTIN, a Catholic priest, born 25th December 1762 at Huttenried in Bavaria, was from about 1790 the originator of a religious movement closely akin to those of the Protestant Pietists. From 1806, when he settled at Gallneukirchen, his influence spread widely among the Catholic laity, and extended to about sixty of their priests. Himself a staunch Catholic, he was often and bitterly persecuted, till in 1817 the Prussian government appointed him a professor of theology and teacher of religion at Düsseldorf. In 1819 he removed to Sayn, near Neuwied, and died there 29th August 1825.