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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 Nazi concentration camp of Auschwitz instead of a Jewish man 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.
