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Kevin Vickers calls day after Parliament Hill shooting \u2018loneliest moment of my life\u2019
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\nFormer House of Commons sergeant-at-arms opens up during acceptance speech of Mount Allison honorary degree<\/p>\n

Vickers immediately arranged for the local priest to say a mass at his family home, during which his mother prayed for the mother of Cpl. Nathan Cirillo, who was killed standing sentry at the National War Memorial, and the mother of Michael Zehaf-Bibeau, who gunned down the soldier.<\/p>\n

It was there, at that mass, surrounded by his extended family, that Vickers also said a prayer for Zehaf-Bibeau.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt kind of occurred to me that [Jesus], after he was crucified, the first person he let into the kingdom of heaven was the man crucified next to him \u2014 a convicted criminal,\u201d he said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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