Word: corfu
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Sunday after Sunday, in the whitewashed Greek Orthodox churches of the neighboring villages, priests delivered a warning-beware of those who would corrupt the church. But in tiny (pop. 220) Kyprianades, in the northern part of the sun-drenched Greek island of Corfu, Father John Costeletos, 45, kept silent. There was little need for him to talk: everyone in town knew that he and his affair with the 37-year-old Widow Theodora Pra had prompted all the other sermons in the first place. And so, one day, when his church bell rang for the congregation to gather, the people...