The skete of the Annunciation was also particularly favoured by the great author Alexandros Papadiamantis of Skiathos, who lived as an ascetic for a period of time in a kalyvi of the skete. His cousin, the monk Andronikos, who in secular life was the similarly well-known author Alexandros Moraitidis, practised in the same kalyvi for a short time.
It is worth noting that in the skete Xenofontos, the Great Martyr Akakios also resided for a short time when he was preparing to be martyred together with his spiritual father Nikolaos.
