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From H.E. Archbishop Celestino Migliore’s lecture entitled, “Catholicism and Islam: Points of Convergence and Divergence, Encounter and Cooperation,” Notre Dame University, 15 November 2007:

An ancient Middle Eastern story tells of a traveler in a desert, who, at a certain point, notices at a distance a horrible and violent monster making its way towards him. Obviously the traveler is frightened. As the monster gets closer, the traveler being able to see him clearer, notices that it is not a monster but a man: an ugly man, but a man nonetheless. After a while, the traveler begins to notice him better and realizes in the end that the man is not that ugly at all. Finally, when he looks into his eyes, he recognizes that he’s his brother.