Dun Ġorġ Preca: A Timeline

12^th February 1880: Ġorġ Preca is born in Valletta. He is the seventh of nine children.

Between 1880 - 1906: Ġorġ Preca studies at the Lyceum, then enters the seminary in preparation to be ordained a priest.

8th April 1905: Dun Alwiġ Galea, Ġorġ Preca’s confessor and spiritual director dies

12^th February 1906: Dun Ġorġ Preca is ordained a priest.

7^th March 1907: Society of Christian Doctrine, M.U.S.E.U.M is founded.

In 1909: Archdiocese halts M.U.S.E.U.M activities.

In 1910: Dun Ġorġ Preca undergoes a mystical experience. A young boy summons the priest to help him drag a cart beneath the Marsa Cross. The priest believed the experience was of a mystic kind and believed the young child was Jesus spurning him on to spread Catholic Doctrine.

In 1916: Archbishop Mauro Caruana orders an inquiry into M.U.S.E.U.M’s practices. The order to close down the society’s premises in Ħamrun is eventually retracted.

12^th April 1932: M.U.S.E.U.M is approved by Archbishop Mauro Caruana approves and other ecclesiastical authorities.

In 1952: First M.U.S.E.U.M members sent to Australia to found society there.

2^nd October 1952: Pope Pius XII appoints Dun Ġorġ Preca as Secret Chamberlainwith the title of Monsignor.

In 1961: Dun Ġorġ Preca’s experiences serious health problems and is forced to retire indoors inside his housekeepers home in Sta Venera.

26^th July 1962: Dun Ġorġ Preca passes away aged 82.

3rd February 1964: Charles Zammit Endrich's alleges his detached retina healed after he placed a relic of Dun Ġorġ under his pillow.

In 1975: The cause for Dun Ġorġ Preca’s beatification is initiated by Father Mark Said O.P.

28th June 1999: Dun Gorg Preca was declared "venerable".

9th of May 2001: Pope John Paul II declares the priest Blessed.

24th July 2001: A 29-day-old infant with liver problems is unexplainably healed and no longer requires a transplant after family turns to God through prayer, with the intercession of Dun Ġorġ Preca.

July 2002: The Ecclesiastical Tribunal under the leadership of Mons. Arthur Said Pullicino, commences a Diocesan Process to study the case.

19th June 2004: Diocesan Process comes to an end.

17th December 2004: the Congregation for the Causes of Saints in Rome decides the Maltese process analyzing the case is valid.

1st October 2006: Father Mark Said O.P., postulator in the Cause for the Beatification and Canonization of Dun Ġorġ Preca for several years, dies.

In 2006: Doctors and Theologists of the Congregation submitting positive verdicts on the child’s miraculous healing.

14^th February 2007: The second miracle for the cause of Dun Ġorġ Preca’s sainthood is approved by Pope Benedict XVI.

23^rd February 2007: Cardinals gathered in a Consortium at the Vatican expressed that they were in favour of the canonization of Dun Ġorġ Preca.

3^rd June 2007: Dun Ġorġ Preca is made a saint in a ceremony at the Vatican, led by Pope Benedict XVI.