1918
January 20 - Father Marian Żelazek is born in Palędzie near Poznań, from parents Stanisław and Stanisława as the seventh child from among 16 children (including two adopted ones)
February 10 - baptism in Skórzewo  

Zelazek's family. Marian standing in top row first from the right (fot. Fr. Marian Zelazek's archive)

1925
beginning of education at the local primary school

1926
Żelazek’s family moves to Poznań

1930
beginning of education at the St. Maria Magdalena Gymnasium in Poznań

1932
beginning of adventure with the Society of the Divine Word: further education in the lower seminary, officially known as SVD Male Gymnasium in Górna Grupa in Pomerania  

1937
September 8 - beginning of the novitiate in Chludowo near Poznań  

1938
September - beginning of philosophical studies

1939
September 4 - taking the first religious vows

1940
May 20 - graduation from philosophical studies
May 22 - deportation to Fort VII in Poznań
May 25 - concentration camp in Dachau
August 2 - concentration camp in Gusen

1941
December 8 - return to the concentration camp in Dachau

Gate of the concentration camp in Dachau (fot. Fr. Marian Zelazek's archive)

1945
April 29 - liberation of the Dachau camp by US troops  
from November - theological studies at the Anselmianum University in Rome

1948
September 8 - perpetual vows
September 18 - priestly ordination in Rome after the third year of theology

1949
completion of studies in Rome; one month in Poland (after 9 years), first Mass in Poznań
one year of work among Polish refugees in Bagnoli near Naples

1950
March 3 - setting off from Genoa on board of the Dutch merchant ship "Laurenskerk" on the mission to Sambalpur in India in the state of Orissa
March 21 - arrival in Bombay (today Mumbay)
April 4 - beginning of the mission among Adibasi, the original ethnic groups in India  

1951
headmaster of primary school and the only gymnasium (lower seminary) in Hamirpur

1964
Kesramal, supervisor of all 171 Catholic schools in the Sambalpur mission

Fr. Marian with pupils in Sambalpur (fot. Fr. Marian Zelazek's archive)

1968
parish priest of the new mission in Bondamunda with 5 stations;
opening of the sanctuary of the Holy Mother of Częstochowa

1975
June 1 - beginning of work in the holy Hindu city of Puri on the Bay of Bengal  

1980
opening of a leprosarium in Puri

1984
opening of a school for children from lepers' families  

1985
December 11 - consecration of the Church of the Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary in Puri, with ceramics of the artist Janina M. Karczewska-Konieczna from Gdańsk
inauguration of the Search for Truth Centre with the Christian library

Church in Puri (fot. Andrzej Danilewicz SVD)

1988
opening of a shelter for homeless lepers "Dharamsala"

1989
November - "Karunalaya - Cottage of love and mercy", a small hospital for lepers in critical state  

1991
resignation from the post of the parish priest; Father Żelazek becomes a bonopasi - hermit in an ashram; he continues looking after the lepers' village  

1998
Golden Jubilee of Priesthood - Poznań
June 16-24 - "Zamek" Cultural Centre: "In the Indian land. 48 years of life among Adibasi and lepers" - photographic exhibition on the occasion of the 80th birthday and 50th anniversary of priesthood of Father Marian Żelazek, SVD (organized by the Humanitarian Aid Foundation “Redemptoris Missio”)
June 22 - hall of the University of Adam Mickiewicz in Poznań, conferring the medal inscribed "To those who do good" by the Humanitarian Aid Foundation “Redemptoris Missio”
September 4 - photographic exhibition "The missionary of lepers - Father Marian Żelazek SVD", organized by the "Wspólnota Polska" Association at the Polonia House in Warsaw
"May God Repay" medal awarded by the magazine "Powściągliwość i Praca"

1999
April 9 - Knight's Cross of the Order of Polonia Restituta, presented by the Polish Ambassador to India
October 3 - medal of Karol Marcinkowski awarded by the Medical Academy in Poznań for merits in providing charity and medical aid to lepers

2000
November 12 - India. Khrist Jayanti. Millennium Celebration Certificate of Merit. Diploma of recognition of the Catholic Diocese of Rurkel for 2000 years of Christianity awarded to Father Marian as an expression of gratitude for his work

2001
May 26 - the BBC broadcasts a 45-minute documentary "New Face of Leprosy", in which the work of Fr. Żelazek is shown

2002
notification of candidacy for the Nobel Peace Prize
January 9 - Amber Order of the Lotus Flower with the Cross for Contribution to the Missionary Cause, awarded by SVD Mission and Charity Foundation of Blessed Józef of Szantung Mission in Pieniężno
January 30 - World Day of Leprosy, in the Congress Hall of the Palace of Culture and Science in Warsaw, a charitable concert was organized: Touch and understand. Poznań Nightingales sing for lepers. Purpose of the concert - to support leprosy centers established and run by Poles, fundraising for the extension of the integration school in Puri, and promotion of the person of Father Marian Żelazek SVD, candidate for the Nobel Peace Prize.
June 14 - Nationwide Missionary Congress in Gdańsk - exhibition dedicated to Marian Żelazek's missionary work
June 15 - School Complex in Chludowo near Poznań is conferred the name of Fr. Marian Żelazek  
August 3 - Pompeian Room of the Episcopal Palace in Poznań - handing the "Golden Hipolit" statuette and the Honorary Diploma of "Outstanding Personalities of Organic Work" (on the initiative of the Poznań County and the Hipolit Cegielski Society)

2006
January 21 - opening of the Dialogue Center - Ishopanthi Ashram  
April 30 - Father Marian Żelazek dies in Puri, at the moment when he ends his visit in a leper colony
May 2 - funeral at the SVD cemetery in Jharsuguda, India

Tomb of fr. Marian Zelazek in Puri decorated for 100th anniversary of missionary's birth (fot. Andrzej Danilewicz SVD)