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When 26-year-old Father Hermogenes Coronel came to the sleepy little parish of San Rafael in 1940, no one welcomed him more heartily than Alfredo Musni. The priest took a room in Alfredo's house, became fast friends with Alfredo, his wife and his daughter Gloria. Later, Father Coronel and Alfredo's brother-in-law entered a business partnership to found the San Rafael Academy. In 1946, Alfred Musni enrolled blooming 18-year-old Gloria in Father Coronel's school...
Last week, the Musni family and Father Coronel, friends no longer, were glaring at each other across a Manila courtroom while a judge weighed the legal answer to a delicate question that had disturbed the whole Philippine Republic: Was Father Coronel legally married to Gloria Musni...
...Father Coronel's own answer was an emphatic no. True, he told the court, he and Gloria had gone through a marriage ceremony before a justice of the peace in 1948, but there were at least two invalidating circumstances: i) the marriage was never consummated; 2) Alfredo Musni was holding a gun at his back at the time. After the ceremony, Father Coronel said, he returned to his parish, finally managed to slip away from the ever-watchful Musnis and escape 600 miles away to Zamboanga. Last fall, after church authorities had declared the marriage void, Father Coronel returned...
...pregnant and crying in her room. I asked Gloria if this was true and who did it, but she kept quiet. So I hit her. Then my son Nestor arrived and I explained the matter to him. He also hit her. Then she talked. She said it was Father Coronel who did it ... The next morning I went [out] with my son . . . came back in the afternoon with Father Coronel and in the evening they were married...
...From Callao, Peru, two German ships sailed in the night without clearance papers. Next day the Peruvian cruiser Almirante Grau found them burning 200 miles offshore. Two larger ships which tried to sail were halted by five shots from the cruiser Coronel Bolognesi. Their crews fired them in the harbor. At Paita another German ship was burned. Peru retaliated by seizing the hangars and workshops and two Junkers planes of the Lufthansa airline, by taking possession of the assets of Lufthansa and German shipping companies...