The cats continued to do the job and removed those snakes for years along the Akrotiri Peninsula otherwise known as the Cat Peninsula. Monks would use a bell and the cats would come to the monastery at meal time and then the cats were then sent back out to do their snake duty.

The Holy Monastery of St. Nicholas soon became a favorite stop of pilgrims from all around Europe. They discovered documents of a Venetian monk as he described the cats as being battle worn from their fight against the snakes. He mentioned that some were missing various body parts, scarred, and even blind from their un-relentless fight against the snakes.