Sermons on Lament

The Original Veiled Prophet Parade Introduction:  One of my very earliest memories is of the Veiled Prophet Parade, which has been a fixture here in St. Louis for over 100 years.  From the time I was two years old until I was seven, my family lived in a six-flat tenement on Washington between Vandeventer and Sarah, just two doors west of the convent for the Sisters of the Helpers of the Holy Souls.  The first building on the other side of the convent…