This year's pilgrimage comes as Catholics reel from the killing of an elderly French priest on July 26 by two Islamist extremists, who stormed his church in northern France during Mass and slit his throat.
今年的朝圣来临之际，天主教却受到法国一名老年神父被害案的不利影响，7月26日两名伊斯兰极端分子在弥撒期间闯入了这名老神父在法国北部的教堂并割断了他的喉咙。