Bartholomew of Grigoriou

Bartholomew of Grigoriou (d. 1907) came from the island of Tinos, of the Most Holy Mother of God. He was assistant steward of the monastery's dependency at Voultsista, Pieria. Together with his fellow monk, Elder Symeon (d. 1901), he was slandered of immorality, he, this rock of morality, as the monastic register notes. So he suffered the same grievous trial as the one mentioned. He was set against his will on a saddleless donkey, facing backwards, and was led around, receiving irony, mocked and ridiculed by various people. Divine justice made an example for the others by the pitiful end of the cruel slanderers; one of them was a novice and the other a worker on the monastery's estates, who had been helped together with his family. Both had a painful end for their God-⁠hated slander.

After this bitter event he returned to the monastery, which he served obediently to the end of his life. He reposed in the Lord on 10 December 1907, hoping for the resurrection of the dead and the life of the age to come. He is venerated by the faithful, without synodal canonization.