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

1906: Ġorġ Preca finishes his 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

22^nd December 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 Chamberlain with 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.
14th April 1996:  Mgr Charles J. Scicluna nominated Postulator

28th June 1999: Dun Ġorġ 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 Mgr Charles J. Scicluna , 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 analysing 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.                                        22^nd  February 2009: Archbishop Dennis James Hart of Melbourne and the President of Malta, Dr. Edward Fenech Adami blessed the bust of Saint George Preca, commissioned by the Maltese community in Australia, at St Patrick’s Cathedral’s grounds.

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