Rassophoria of sister Theolipti

The Nunnery of St John the Baptist is located three and a half kilometres west of the village Anatoli, 1100 meters high on Mount Kissavos (Ossa). It was built in 1550 by Saint Damianos of Kissavos, who also organized the coenobitic monastic brotherhood that flourished up until the Second World War, when the Monastery was deserted. Near the original, post-Byzantine building complex, Athonite monks began to build a new wing in 1980, which they abandoned in 1985. In July 2000, an international team of Orthodox nuns undertook the restoration of the Monastery. The same nuns also keep the Hermitage (Hesychasterio) of "Apostle Paul" in Attica. They engage in "liturgical crafts" as well as organic gardening and farming (livestock-raising).

The way this monastic community perceives the multiethnic character of the Monastery is as an international mission confirming in practice that in Orthodoxy there is no distinction between nations, races and languages. It slowly becomes known that the Monastery sells organic farming and livestock products, mainly dairy products, as a means of sustaining themselves. The Nunnery occasionally organizes meetings of groups with interests in Orthodoxy, Monasticism, Ecology and other similar subjects. A goal of vital importance for the monastic community and the rest of the world is the restoration of the Old Monastery, a jewel of local architecture and pride for the cultural heritage of Thessaly. The Abbess is Theoktisti Angelaki.