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{{cleanup}}[[Image:StGrigolPeradze.jpg|thumb|St. Grigol Peradze]]Holy Hieromartyr '''Grigol Peradze''' was a famous Georgian ecclesiastic figure, [[theologian]], historian, [[archimandrite]], Doctor of History, and Professor of the early twentieth century. Like Christ Himself, Archimandrite Grigol died for having taken upon himself the [[sin]] of another. His [[feast day]] is [[December 6]].
'''== Life ==Archimandrite Grigol Peradze''' (''St. Priest Martyr Grigol''), (September 13, 1899 - December 6, 1942) was a famous born on [[Georgia (country)|GeorgianAugust 31]] [[ecclesiastic]] figure, [[theologian]]1899 in the village of Bakurtsikhe, in the Sighnaghi district of Kakheti, historianin Eastern Georgia. His father, [[Archimandrite]]Romanoz Peradze, was a [[PhDpriest]] of History, Professor.
== Life and works ==Grigol In 1918, Peradze was born in graduated from the village of [[BakurtsikheTbilisi Theological Seminary]], . He then continued his studies at the Tbilisi State University graduating in the 1921. On [[GurjaaniFebruary 25]] district , 1921, Georgia was occupied by Soviet forces that had taken over the government of Russia. After his graduation he began to teach at the university, but the [[KakhetiChurch of Georgia]] region, sent him to Germany in Eastern Georgia. His father, Romanoz Peradze, was a priestNovember 1921 to study theology.
On February 25In early 1927, 1921Grigol moved to England to continue his academic career. In England he found in the library collections of the British Museum and Oxford University old patristic manuscripts. In July 1927, Georgia he was occupied by Soviet Russia. Grigol Peradze went into exile in Germany in November named an Associate Professor at the University of Bonn, to which he returned to lecture on the same yearhistory of Georgian and Armenian literature until 1932.
From 1927 - 1932 Peradze was an Associate Professor at At the University invitation of Bonn. From 1933 - 1942 he was a Professor Orthodox Metropolitan Dionysius Waledinsky of [[Patrology]] All Poland in 1932, Grigol taught until 1934 at the Faculty of Orthodox Theology of [[Warsaw University]]in Poland as a Professor of Patrology. In 1934, in he also received the rank of [[Polandarchimandrite]].
In 1931Throughout the 1930s, Archim. Grigol Peradze was ordained a priest continued his search for manuscripts concerning Georgian Christian culture. He discovered many in the [[Eastern Orthodox Church|Greek Orthodox]] Cathedral of London; in 1934Romania, Bulgaria, Greece, Italy, he received the rank of Archimandrite. In 1931Germany, he founded a Georgian St. Nino [[Georgian Orthodox and Apostolic Church|Orthodox]] church in ParisAustria. In These included manuscripts of the Typikon of the same year he began to publish a Georgian scientific journal titled "''Jvari Vazisa''" 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 Vine")Leipzig, Germany, as well as others.
In the 1930s, Peradze discovered numerous important written manuscripts The invasion of Georgian Christian culture Poland by German troops in [[Romania]]1939 made Archim. Grigol's position in Poland precarious, [[Bulgaria]], Greece, Italy, Germany, and [[Austria]] (Georgian manuscripts of for his being in solidarity with Jews in peril went without saying. He helped wherever he could. He did not hesitate to visit the Typicon of imprisoned Polish Metr. Dionysius. These activities were viewed with growing suspicion by 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, etcNazi occupiers and brought Archim.)Grigol's fruitful ecclesiastic and scientific activities to an end.
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 On [[May 4]], 1942, he was arrested by the German [[Gestapo]]for sheltering and aiding Jews and other victims of fascist persecutions. <ref>[http://www.geocities.com/sisauri/language/geo/feradze.html Lukas Vischer: A The priceless collection of Georgian Saint: Grigol Peradze manuscripts he had collected (1899-1942in hopes of returning them to Georgia)]</ref> On December 6disappeared a search of his quarters. Initially, 1942incarcerated in Pawiak prison in Warsaw, Grigol Peradze he was killed deported to Auschwitz 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 familyNovember 1942.
Main fields At Auschwitz, a German officer was killed by one of scientific activity the inmates. To get a confession, the guards drove everyone out of the barracks completely naked into the below freezing weather. To save the innocent prisoners from freezing to death, Archim Grigol Peradze were: chose to take the history of blame for the [[Georgian Orthodox and Apostolic Church]], source studies of murder. Upon his admission the history of Georgia and guards let loose dogs on the Georgian Church, Patrology, history of Georgian literature, [[Rustvelologymartyr]] ([[Shota Rustaveli]] was a great Georgian poet of the 12th century), etcthen poured gasoline over him, and lit him on fire.
== Some main scientific works of Grigol Peradze ==
* [http://www.pravoslavie.ru/cgi-bin/sykon/client/display.pl?sid=381&did=1601 Sviaschennomuchenik Arkhimandrit Grigorii (Peradze) (in Russian)]
* Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Grigol_Peradze
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Initially, Grigol studied theology and eastern languages at the University of Berlin from 1922 to 1925. In 1918 Peradze 1925, he transferred to the University of Bonn from which he graduated in 1927 with a doctoral degree in Philosophy, awarded for his dissertation ''History of the Georgian Monasticism from the [[Tbilisi]] [[Tbilisi Theological Seminary|Theological Seminary]], and afterwards studied its creation until 1064''. He also attended lectures in theology at the [[Tbilisi State University]] of Louvain until 19211927.
In 1926 he graduated from the 1931, Grigol Peradze entered a monastic life and was [[tonsure]]d a [[University of Bonnmonk]] (Germany). In 1927 he received He was then [[ordination|ordained]] a PhD degree [[priest]] in History (the title Greek Orthodox Cathedral of his PhD thesis London and was appointed dean of the St. Nino Georgian Orthodox church in Paris. Also in 1931 he began to publish a Georgian scientific journal titled "''History of the Georgian Monasticism from its creation until 1064Jvari Vazisa''" ("Cross of Vine").
It was on [[December 6]], 1942, at 4:45PM, that Grigol Peradze was canonized martyred in the Nazi concentration camp of Auschwitz. In the end, like Christ Himself, Archimandrite Grigol died for having taken upon himself the sin of another. Grigol Peradze was [[glorification|glorified]] by the Georgian Orthodox and Apostolic Church in 1995. == Principal scientific works by Grigol Peradze ==The Feast Day for St. Priest Martyr main fields of scientific activity of Grigol is December 6Peradze were: the history of the Georgian Orthodox and Apostolic Church, source studies of the history of Georgia and the Georgian Church, Patrology, history of Georgian literature, and Rustvelology (Shota Rustaveli a great Georgian poet of the 12th century).
* Die Anfänge des Mönchtums in Georgien.- "Zeitschrift für Kirchengeschichte", 47, Heft 1, Stuttgart, 1928, pp. 34-75 (in German)
* L'activité littéraire des moines géorgiens au monastère d'Iviron au mont Athos.- "Revue d'histoire ecclésiastique", 27, Fasc. 3, Paris, 1927, pp. 530-539 (in French)
* Im Dienste der Georgischen Kultur.- "Aus der Welt des Ostens", Königsberg, 1940, pp. 30-50 (in German)
==Notes and referencesSources=={{reflist}}*[http://www.pravoslavie.ru/english/7363.htm Holy Hieromartyr Grigol (Peradze) (1942)]*[[Wikipedia:Grigol Peradze]]
== Literature about Grigol Peradze ==
* David Kolbaia (editor) "St. Grigol (Peradze) works nr 1, in: Pro Georgia Journal of Kartvelological Studies nr 13, 200.
== External links link ==* [http://www.geocities.com/sisauri/language/geo/feradze.html Lukas Vischer: A Georgian Saint: Grigol Peradze (1899-1942)]
* [http://www.kosciol.pl/article.php/20041230232911240/print Świadkowie XX wieku - Grzegorz Peradze (in Polish)]
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