ABSTRACT
By the end of the twelfth century, the Byzantine emperor Alexios III Angelos granted to the monastery of Saint John the Theologian on Patmos the property named Nissi situated at Psychro in Crete. The assets constituted the nucleus of the later Cretan metochion of the monastery at the village Stylos in Apokoronas. Reference to the monks of Patmos is made in the treaty signed in 1219 by the duke of Crete Domenico Dolfin and the Cretan rebels Konstandinos Skordhilis and Theodhoros Melissinos. The treaty stipulated, inter alia, that a number of peasants would receive their freedom, a general amnesty would be proclaimed, and the monks of Patmos would be left unharmed. In 1271, the duke of Crete Lorenzo Tiepolo granted to the monastery of Patmos the privilege, ratified in 1307 by Doge Pietro Gradenigo, to export annually from Crete to Patmos 1,000 mouzouria of grain.
