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'''Grigol Peradze''' (''St. Priest Martyr Grigol''), ([[September 13]], 1899 - [[December 6]], 1942) was a famous [[Georgia (country)|Georgian]] [[ecclesiastic]] figure, [[theologian]], historian, [[Archimandrite]], [[PhD]] of History, Professor.

== Life and works ==Grigol Peradze was born in the village of [[Bakurtsikhe]], in the [[Gurjaani]] district of the [[Kakheti]] region, in Eastern Georgia. His father, Romanoz Peradze, was a priest.

In 1918 Peradze graduated from the [[Tbilisi]] [[Tbilisi Theological Seminary|Theological Seminary]], and afterwards studied at the [[Tbilisi State University]] until 1921.

On [[February 25]], 1921, Georgia was occupied by Soviet Russia. Grigol Peradze went into exile in Germany in November the same year.

In 1926 he graduated from the [[University of Bonn]] (in Germany). In 1927 he received a PhD degree in History (the title of his PhD thesis was "''History of the Georgian Monasticism from its creation until 1064''").

From 1927 - to 1932 Peradze was an Associate Professor at the University of Bonn. From 1933 - to 1942 he was a Professor of [[Patrology]] at the Faculty of Orthodox Theology of [[Warsaw University]], in [[Poland]].

In 1931, Grigol Peradze was [[ordination|ordained ]] a [[priest ]] in the [[Eastern Orthodox Church|Greek Orthodox]] Cathedral of London; in . In 1934, he received the rank of Archimandrite. In 1931, he founded a Georgian St. Nino [[Georgian Orthodox and Apostolic Church|Orthodox]] church in Paris. In the same year he began to publish a Georgian scientific journal titled "''Jvari Vazisa''" ("Cross of Vine").

In the 1930s, Peradze discovered numerous important written manuscripts of Georgian Christian culture in [[Romania]], [[Bulgaria]], Greece, Italy, Germany, and [[Austria]] (Georgian manuscripts of the Typicon of the Georgian [[Petritsoni Monastery]] (Bachkovo, Bulgaria), the so-called [[Tischendorf manuscripts]] of the Apagae of the Monastery of the Holy Cross at the University Library in the [[University of Leipzig]], Germany, etc.).

The invasion of Poland by German troops in 1939 made Peradze's position precarious. For him being in solidarity with Jews in peril went without saying; and he helped wherever he could. Nor did he hesitate to visit the imprisoned Polish Metropolitan Dionysios. These activities were viewed with growing suspicion by the Nazi occupiers and Peradze's fruitful ecclesiastic and scientific activities were brought to an end in 1942 when, on [[May 4]], he was arrested by the German [[Gestapo]]. <ref>[http://www.geocities.com/sisauri/language/geo/feradze.html Lukas Vischer: A Georgian Saint: Grigol Peradze (1899-1942)]</ref> On [[December 6]], 1942, Grigol Peradze was killed in the [[Nazism|Nazi]] [[concentration camp]] of [[Auschwitz concentration camp|Auschwitz]] ([[Oświęcim]]) when he entered a gas-chamber instead of a Jewish prisoner who had a large family.

Main fields of scientific activity of Grigol Peradze were: the history of the [[Church of Georgia|Georgian Orthodox and Apostolic Church]], source studies of the history of Georgia and the Georgian Church, Patrology, history of Georgian literature, [[Rustvelology]] ([[Shota Rustaveli]] was a great Georgian poet of the 12th century), etc.

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