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CHRONOLOGY

 

1672–1675

Marguerite-Marie Alacoque at Parayle-Monial receives promises of the reign of the Sacred Heart of Jesus

1733

Bernardo de Hoyos in Valladolid receives promises that the Sacred Heart will reign in Spain

1830

Catherine Labouré has vision of the Miraculous Medal in Paris

1846

Children have vision at La Salette

1858

Bernadette has first vision at Lourdes

1876

End of last Carlist War, beginning of constitutional monarchy in Spain

1903

Death of Gemma Galgani in Lucca

1904

First diocesan pilgrimage to Lourdes from Basque Country

1917

Three children have their best known visions at Fatima

1917–1920

Social and political unrest in Spain

1918

Stigmata of Padre Pio da Pietrelcina in Puglia

1919

Children first see the Christ of Limpias (Cantabria) move during Capuchin mission


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1920

Children first see the Christ of Piedramillera (Navarra) move

1922

First falsification of writings of María Rafols, founder, Daughters of Charity of Santa Ana

1923–1930

Dictatorship of Primo de Rivera

1926

Stigmata of Thérèse Neumann in Bavaria

1931

14 April . Municipal elections lead to proclamation of the Second Republic; Alfonso XIII abdicates and leaves Spain

 

23 April . Children have visions in Torralba de AragÓn (Huesca)

 

10–13 May . Anticlerical rioters burn religious houses in Madrid, Málaga, and other cities

 

17 May . Government expels Mateo MÚgica, bishop of Vitoria, for alleged political propaganda

 

4 June . Children have visions in Mendigorría (Navarra)

 

16 June . Government expels Cardinal Pedro Segura, primate of Spain

 

18 June . Mendigorría townspeople ambush passing Republicans

 

28 June . Elections to Constituent Cortes, political violence in Bergara

 

29 or 30 June . Children have first visions at Ezkioga; nightly visions for rest of the year

 

7 July . First notice of Ezkioga visions in the press

 

12, 16, 18 July . People expect miracles, crowds of 50,000 persons


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late July . Carmen Medina arrives at Ezkioga

 

1 August . Francisco Goicoechea allegedly levitates

 

10 August . Raymond de Rigné and Marie-Geneviève Thirouin arrive at Ezkioga

 

early August . Visions begin in Basque villages in Navarra, mainly by children

 

13 August . Antonio de la Villa denounces Ezkioga visions in Constituent Cortes

 

22 August . Government suspends rightist press and sends troops to the north

 

26 August . Children begin visions in Guadamur (Toledo)

 

2 October . María Naya finds Rafols prediction of visible miracles

 

14 October . Cortes approves separation of Church and State

 

15 October . Ramona Olazábal's public wounding; 20,000 present

 

16 October . 80,000 attend visions

 

17 October . Over 50,000 persons see "miracles" of girl from Ataun and others. Vicar general of diocese publicly repudiates Ramona's miracle

 

1–20 November . In El Pueblo Vasco , Rafael Picavea discredits the visions

 

13 November . Padre Burguera arrives at Ezkioga

 

17 November . The seer José Garmendia visits President Macià in Barcelona


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13 December . First Aulina expedition from Barcelona at Ezkioga

 

27 December . Diocese forbids priests from going to the site

1932

mid-January . Vision crucifixions begin

 

29 January . Dissolution of Society of Jesus in Spain; María Naya finds Rafols prediction of the chastisement of Spanish cities

 

5 February . State decrees the removal of religious images from town halls in Gipuzkoa

 

20 April . Laburu's lecture against the visions in Victoria (June 21 and 28 in San Sebastián)

 

10 August . General José Sanjurjo attempts coup in Sevilla from Medina family house

 

6 October . Believers install image in chapel

 

8 October-early December . Governor Jesús del Pozo confines seers and promoters

 

December . Visions at Beauraing, Belgium

1933

January–March . Visions at Banneux, Belgium

 

11 April . Mateo Múgica returns as bishop of Vitoria

 

May–December . Padre Burguera tests and eliminates seers

 

17 May . Beatification of Gemma Galgani in Rome

 

5 August . 300,000 persons at Beauraing for predicted miracle


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19 August . Bishop Múgica sends report on Ezkoga visions to the Holy Office

 

10 September . Degrelle and Rex expedition at Ezkioga

 

15 September . Bishop Múgica denies the supernatural character of visions and forbids seers to go to site

1934

January . Rigné publishes Une Nouvelle Affaire Jeanne d'Arc

 

9 March . Múgica bans books on Ezkioga

 

18 June . Holy Office issues decree against visions at Ezkioga; cult goes underground

fall 1934–spring 1936

Periodic arrests of Ezkioga believers by the Republic

1935

March . Burguera and Sedano de la Peña take the book Los Hechos de Ezquioga to Rome

18 July 1936–1 April 1939

Military uprising against the Second Republic; Spanish Civil War

January 1937–December 1941

Persecution of Ezkioga believers in Gipuzkoa by the Franco state

1945–1954

New visions, especially by children, throughout Spain, particularly after circulation of statues of the Virgin of Fatima

1952

Believers visit Bishop Font y Andreu of San Sebastián

1961–1965

Girls have visions at San Sebastián de Garabandal (Cantabria)

1981

Teenagers begin visions at Medjugorje


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