Documents of 1409 report that Simon, the Protos of Mt Athos, transferred the Cell of the Saviour which belonged to the Protaton, to the Monk Theodoulos, the Abbot of the St Pavlos Monastery. In a document of 1423, the Hieromonk Efthimios is reported to have asked the the Protos Gennadio for the Cell of Simeon, The God-Receiver (Θεοδόχου Συμεών) – the so-called Friend/Protector of Infants (Φιλογόνου) – in the area of Karyes, which belonged to the Protaton – and to have received it. The Monastery returned the Cell to the Protaton in 1456, according to a document by the Protos Serapionos.
In 1661, the Monastery purchased four cells in Karyes, three of which are still operating today:
a) St Andreas – the location of the Monastery’s Delegation Centre, with a similarly-named chapel. In 1867, the cell was sold to the Metropolite former Moschonision Kallinikos by the subordinate of the Hieromonk Efthimios, who died and was buried on 13 September 1891. The Monastery repurchased the cell in 1895. Conservation and renovation projects were undertaken in 1992 and 1993.
b) St Theodoros – located 100 metres northwest of the Delegation Centre; There is a reference that the Monastery had been forced to sell the Cell in 1824 due to its heavy load of debt. Important repair and conservation projects have been carried out within the Cell.
c) The Presentation – is reported to have been transferred by Serapionos, the Protos of Mt Athos, to the Hieromonk Iakobos and the other monks in a 1456 document. There are also earlier reports from a 1423 document of the Serbian despot Stefanos, which refer to the cell as ‘St Simeon, The God-Receiver’ (Θεοδόχου Συμεών) – the so-called Friend/Protector of Infants (Φιλογόνου), a name which is identified with the Cell of the Presentation – and that it was transferred by the Protos of Agios Oros, the Hieromonk Malachia. In the decade1880-1890, major renovations were made to the Cell.
