Grigol Peradze | |
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Hieromartyr and Archimandrite | |
Born | August 31 1899 Bakurtsikhe Village, Signakh uezd, Tiflis Governorate, Caucasus Viceroyalty, Imperial Russia (Bakurtsikhe, Signagi, Kakheti, Georgia) |
Died | December 6 1942 Auschwitz Concentration Camp, German-occupied Poland |
Honored in | Eastern Orthodox Church |
Feast | December 6 |
Grigol Peradze (Georgian: გრიგოლ ფერაძე; 13 September 1899 – 6 December 1942) was a prominent Georgian ecclesiastic figure, philologist, theologian, historian, and professor of patristics in the interwar period.
After providing help to Jews in Poland, he was arrested and sent to Auschwitz, where he was ultimately killed. He was canonized by the Eastern Orthodox Church as a martyr in 1995 and is celebrated on December 6.
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