1885 - July 26 - Mark E. Petrakis is born in Villandredou, in the mountains above the city of Rethymnon, Crete. He is one of five children.

1890 - May 09 - Stella Christoulakis is born in Nipos, not far from Rethymnon. The fourth child born, her two elder sisters and one brother all died before three years of age.

1892 - Two-year old Stella survives typhoid fever. She recovers after the Turkish governor allows a procession of priests and neighbors to carry an icon of St. Luke from a nearby monastery to the sick child's bed where she remembers her father instructing her to kiss it.

1898 - July 20 - Allied Powers force Turkey to leave Crete after 400 years.

1908 - February 12 - Mark E. Petrakis and Stella Christoulakis are married prior to his ordination as a Greek Orthodox priest in Rethymnon, Crete.

1909 - December 16 - Daniel Mark Petrakis is born to Stella and Rev. Mark Petrakis in Rethymnon, Crete.

1910 - January 23 - Barbara Petrakis is born to Stella and Rev. Mark Petrakis in Rethymnon, Crete.

1911 - July 20 - Tasula Mark Petrakis is born to Stella and Rev. Mark Petrakis in Rethymnon, Crete.

1913 - October 8 - Manuel Mark Petrakis is born to Stella and Rev. Mark Petrakis in Rethymnon, Crete.

1913 - Crete is united with Greece. Cretans quickly join the flood of European immigrants heading towards the U.S.A.

1916 - Rev. Petrakis, Presbytera Stella and their four children, emigrate to the United States to assume a parish of Cretan miners in Price, Utah.