Two hundred years later, in the the 16th-century Ottoman era, another great ascetic lived at the boundary of the Karakallos Monastery: St Dionysios of Olympus. According to his what is known about his life, around the year 1520, he retired to a skete of the Monastery, built a cell and the church of the Holy Trinity, and practised asceticism for several years. After a pilgrimage to Jerusalem, he returned to his skete and built the church of the Holy Fathers, before being elected Abbot of the neighbouring Monastery of Philotheou.
