George Paizanos of Mytilene

George Paizanos of Mytilene was a tailor from the island of Lesbos who died as a new martyr at Constantinople in the year 1693, because he confessed faith in Christ and refused to change his religion.

According to the tradition kept, he was born in the village of Plagia, in the Plomari district of the island of Lesbos. He was a tailor by trade. Besides his own commemoration on 14 February (new style), he is also remembered in the Synaxis of all the saints of Lesbos and in the Synaxis of the new martyrs who suffered after the fall of Constantinople. His troparion calls on the people of Lesbos to rejoice and to keep the memory of the new martyr, a firm soldier who overcame the devil in hard times.