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Aglipay vs Ruiz 64 PHIL 201

GREGORIO AGLIPAY, petitioner, vs. JUAN RUIZ, respondent.

G.R. No. 45459 | 1937-03-13

D E C I S I O N
 
LAUREL, J:
 
The petitioner, Mons. Gregorio Aglipay, Supreme Head of the Philippine Independent Church, seeks the issuance from this court of a writ of prohibition to prevent the respondent Director of Posts from issuing and selling postage stamps commemorative of the Thirty-third International Eucharistic Congress.
 
In May, 1936, the Director of Posts announced in the dailies of Manila that he would order the issuance of postage stamps commemorating the celebration in the City of Manila of the Thirty- third International Eucharistic Congress, organized by the Roman Catholic Church. The petitioner, in the...