Patron of the city of Ioannina, Agios Georgios church is located on Pargis Square. His remains are kept in the church after he was executed by the Turks on the 17^th of January 1838 for not denying his faith to Christianity. It is said that his body remained hanging for days without being harmed and that a luminous sign was permanently above his head at night. This was when the Turks accepted that he was a saint and ordered his burial with lots of honors.