In the skete of Glossias, which is at the boundary of the Monastery’s land, St Gregorios Palamas lived for two years (1322-1324), near the ascetic Gregorios the Drimi. The skete was destroyed shortly before 1353 by Turkish pirates.
In a 1476 letter of the Proto Kallistos, a reference is made to the existence of a skete belonging to the Monastery, in which dependent monks were residing. In 1509/1510, there are reports relating to the Cell of the Dormition of the Virgin Mary, where the monk Ierisos Simeon, who was later appointed to Bishop (1514), lived. According to the Life of the Holy Monk Dionysios of Olympus, at around 1520, he withdrew to the ‘skete’ of the Monastery, where he established ‘cells’ and the church of the Holy Trinity. He returned to the ‘skete’ after a journey to Jerusalem, and built the church of the Holy Fathers.
In the 15th and 16th centuries, there were cells around the Monastery which were under the aegis of the skete, but their operation was atypical and ephemeral. Information drawn from the 1707 Codice of the cells of the Monastery refers to around 15 cells in total in the area of the Monastery and Karyes.
