ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN DECEMBER Saints celebrated on the 29th of December WELCOME! BOSO, BISHOP OF MERSEBURG Boso (commemorated on December 29), Bishop of Merseburg, was a Bavarian by birth. He contributed much to the conversion of the Slavs and Hungarians. Raderus * relates that Boso studied in Regensburg at Saint Emmeram's and, according to the same writer, he died in the year 900. Buc. Sppl .* lists Boso as "venerable". According to this source, Boso went to his eternal reward in 969. (Information from Stadler 's Complete Encyclopedia of Saints, Volume 1, Augsburg, 1858, p. 509) *A hagiography source used by the authors Stadler's Complete Encyclopedia of Saints - Sources and Abbreviations Sources of these articles (in the original German): books.google.co.uk, de-academic.com, zeno.org, openlibrary.org