Peter (Karbelashvili)

Holy Priest and Hieromartyr Peter (Karbelashvili) was the youngest of the five Karbelashvili brothers and received the crown of martyrdom in 1924. He was born in 1860 and studied at the theological school in Gori. From 1878 he was a psalm reader in various churches and taught reading and writing. In 1889 he began to teach Kartli-⁠Kakhetian chant at the seminary in Tbilisi. He was ordained in 1900 and returned to his native village of Sakorintlo, then served in churches and monasteries of Shida Kartli, and in the 1920s in the parish of Mukhrani.

There he was arrested during the August Uprising of 1924 and, together with his brother Andrew and others, was shot in the Tiripona valley. The Church of Georgia canonized him, together with his brothers, on 20 December 2011, with commemoration on 24 August, old style (6 September, new style).