The Diocese of Birmingham’s Knights and Ladies of St. Peter Claver pose for a photograph with Father Mark Mary, M.F.V.A., and Brother John Therese Pratka, M.F.V.A., following Mass at EWTN’s Our Lady of Angels Chapel in Irondale. The Knights of Peter Claver and Ladies Auxiliary is an international Catholic fraternal service order founded in 1909 by the Josephites and parishioners from Most Pure Heart of Mary Catholic Church in Mobile. The order is the largest and oldest black Catholic lay-led organization still in existence.