We next went up the mountain to the Monastery of St. John built by Hosios Christodoulos. Hosios had been a hermit on Kos island and wanted to build a monastery/shrine to St John on Patmos. He asked the King of Constantinople for land and had to trade his land on the island of Kos for all of the island of Patmos. He built the Monastery in 1088 AD. He brought workers to build the monastery and after a few years allowed their families to join them but the families had to live in another town and the men were only allowed to go home for 2 days a week. We visited the museum inside the monastery which contained the original declaration of the King granting the land to Christodoulos, along with many other interesting ancient artifacts. Also, there is a painting of Jesus. Legend states that the painting was to be sold to support the family. The children cried when they heard this, and at that time, the painting of Jesus had tears too. When this happened, the parents did not sell the painting.