Ηermitage seats

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Afterwards, the predominance of monasticism and the huge foundation alone has certain monks wishing for a more secluded life, except for the big Abbey and the Commune. For this, they have chosen places distant and solitude, where it is deserted with seldom, or less than two monks. These spaces were named hermitages, small monasteries made up of huts and seats. Similar elements of the Big Abbey in Patmos were developed slowly. It was developed not only in itself, but also in the adjacent island. It was set off from the beginning of hermitage, and later led to isolated seats. The heir of the Big Abbey, Osios Hristodoulos, in his imperfections proves that for this type of practice, there must exist in Patmos many suitable spaces: In the isolated hermitage seats the elders still exist, and they exist submissively. Later, following the 15th - 16th century, when feminine monasticism was developed in Patmos, there was founded as well the feminine abbeys with their solitary hermitage seats.