This symbolic number (three) corresponds, according to the text, to the three year span in which the Prophet David gained goodness, education, and prudence, after his request to God. One source tells us that this tree was in between two churches within the monastery. The examples of holy men of the Old Testament, in particular the Prophet and King David, prompted the Venerable David to live his ascetic ordeals by climbing up an almond tree to the right of the church (the Katholikon of the monastery) and living up there for three years, until the Lord would reveal His will to him, and grant him wisdom and humility. Saint David the Dendrite of Thessaloniki (†540). Theodore and Mercurius, where Saint David lived a monastic life. It is believed that outside this gate, along the wall, was the Monastery of Ss. We are further informed that there was another monastery next to this one known as Aproiton Monastery, though it is possible that it could have been another name for the same monastery. Theodore and Mercurius was next to the walls of the city, at the gate known as Aproiton. Theodore and Mercurius, otherwise known as Koukouliaton (Κουκουλιατῶν) Monastery, at a young age between the years 465-470.
In Thessaloniki David became a monk at the Monastery of Sts. Although we do not know why either David or Adolas traveled from Mesopotamia to Thessaloniki, both the Synaxarion of Constantinople and the Menologion of Emperor Basil II assure us that he did come from somewhere in the "east". For reasons not mentioned, he travelled to Thessaloniki together with the monk Adolas. Saint David came from Northern Mesopotamia, which was a great monastic center, and was born around 450 AD.
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