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Saint Bartholomew the Younger

Saint Bartholomew the Younger, O.S.B.M.
Monk
Born 981
Rossano, Theme of Calabria, Byzantine Empire
Died 1055
Grottaferrata, County of Tusculum, Papal States
Venerated in Roman Catholic Church, Eastern Orthodox Churches
Major shrine Abbey of Grottaferrata,
Rome, Italy
Feast November 11

Bartholomew (the Younger), O.S.B.M., (981 in Rossano – 1055 in Grottaferrata) was an Italo-Greek abbot.

Batholomew was a disciple of Abbot Nilus the Younger, who founded the Basilian Abbey of Santa Maria in Grottaferrata in 1004. When he succeeded Nilus as abbot, he supervised the completion of the abbey, of which he is considered the second founder.


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