Saint Philip of Agira, patron of an ancient city once called Agyrion
📅 Every year, on 12 May
Agira celebrates Saint Philip of Agira on 12 May; in the Royal Abbey Church dedicated to him a wooden crucifix is kept, the work of Giovan Francesco Pitorno, better known as Friar Umile da Petralia, in the town that arose on the site of ancient Agyrion.