19 July 1835

Birth of Magdalena Gornik.

1847 - 1848

Spring 1847 - First intervention of God’s providence.

2 August 1848

The Heavenly Woman appears to Magdalena a second time, inviting Magdalena to offer her suffering to God and to believe firmly in her Son – that from Him all would be received. She tells Magdalena that in the future she will receive food from God and that she will no longer suffer from hunger or thirst. With this vision, Magdalena recovers from her terrible illness.

11 August 1848

First ecstasy and Magdalena’s surrender to God. In spirit she is transported onto a dark, steep, narrow, and thorny path. She hears a voice: “If you want to go to heaven, come; you must walk upon this path.” Magdalena decides that she will follow the voice that invited her onto the narrow, steep, thorny path that leads to heaven: “I would much like to go on that path.”

From this day on, regular ecstasy and visions begin and continue until her death. Magdalena accepts the life mission: to suffer and to call people to conversion. Magdalena's admonitions and invitation to conversion are accompanied by many mystical phenomena.

25 September 1848

From this day forward until her death, Magdalena no longer eats earthly food. Her food is only the Holy Eucharist (and an extraordinary food), which she receives while in ecstasy.

1848 - 1853

During this period, civil authorities tarnish and persecute her through newspapers. The Church, that is, the contemporaneous Ljubljana Bishop Wolf protects her from civil authorities, being convinced of her innocence and piety. From 2 March to 11 April 1852, a Church investigation takes place at the rectory in Sodražica. The pastor there, Fr. Lesjak, and other nearby priests are astonishingly convinced of the authenticity of the mystical phenomena and that, in this, Magdalena is not a fraud.

1867 - 1896

1867 — Magdalena with two of her sisters move to the parish in Fara near Bloke, providing help for the pastor Janez Kaplenek. Magdalena’s ecstasies, visions, inedia, and other mystical phenomena continue during this time. Many people go to her to visit and to obtain advice.

1867

The civil authorities cause her much suffering during the first six years of her stay in Bloke, again persecution; they poke at her biological condition (inedia) and mystical phenomena as also engage in slander and cause her great moral suffering. Many educated people from the city attend her ecstasies and mystical suffering in union with Christ, especially during Holy Week, among them are clerical and civil dignateries. Dr. Frančišek Lampe, an important Slovenian philosopher and theologian, also establishes contact with her and spiritually accompanies her nearly to the end of her life.

1893

Magdalena with her two sisters return from Bloke to Gora near Sodražica. She lives with her sisters in the village of Petrinci until the end of her life. She frequently relives Christ’s suffering. Many people still visit her with various wishes and intentions.

23. februar 1896

The first Sunday of Lent

Magdalena dies while in ecstasy. She is buried in Gora near Sodražica. A little before her death, she predicted that after six generations miracles from her intercession will occur. Only some local people attend her funeral. Since Magdalena always had many visitors, her sister Apolonia frequently expressed during Magdalena’s final illness concern as to how they would be able to provide food and lodging at that time; Magdalena calmed her, saying: “Be at peace, the loving God will take care of it all.” And her prediction, that is, her firm trust in God that He would provide also for her funeral came true. Because of an unusually heavy snowfall, only eight to ten local people attend her funeral. They bury Magdalena in the grave of her parents.

1996

Magdalena is a forgotten almost 100 years; in this year, the first article about her is published in “Mohorjev Koledar”.

2000

Magdalena is depicted in the fresco of the outside chapel of the Queen of Peace church in Kurešček. Throngs of people begin to go on pilgrimage to her grave. The granting of petitions through her intercession begins.

2004

Research of the main archival sources about Magdalena’s life and mystical phenomena by way of a diploma paper at the Theology Faculty, Ljubljana.

2008

Publication of the first book about her life.

2019, February 19

Ljubljana archbishop, Monsigneur Stanislav Zore appoints Fr. France Petič postulator for the preparation for proceedings toward beatification.

2019, July

Application for the beginning of official proceedings for beatification is sent to the Congregation for the Causes of Saints, Rome.

2021, November 23

On 23 November 2021, the Congregation for the Causes of Saints issued permission to the Archdiocese of Ljubljana to begin formal proceedings for the beatification and canonization of the Servant of God, Magdalena Gornik.