Then, card. Barbarin told how the leader of the Islamic community of Lyons, impressed by some spiritual readings, thought of going on a pilgrimage along with a Catholic delegation to the monastery of Tibhirine, where seven Catholic monks were murdered by some extremists. "We must obtain from God that He will be merciful with the murderers the Muslim Azzedine Gaci had said and that He will change their hearts", and this had moved card. Barbarin who had immediately expressed his will to go with the Muslim religious leader. "The joint Catholic-Muslim delegation he told was received with full honours by the Algerian government and the pilgrimage made our mutual esteem and friendship grow". Then, card. Barbarin recalled that a Catholic-Muslim inter-religious dialogue has been successfully going on for over fifty years in Lyons. "I believe he concluded that only a humble inner attitude, which makes us ready and sensitive to God’s gifts in ourselves and in the others, will enable us to be the true servants of His mercy, the servants of joy in the hearts of men".
