The ailing pope was short of breath, sitting beneath a cherished painting of Mary, Untier of Knots, as he worked through a last-ditch plan to disentangle the finances of one of the world’s most ...

I needed to follow his lead and stand up and be counted. Devotion to Our Lady, Undoer of Knots Going back to the second century A.D., St. Irenaeus taught that the knot of Eve’s disobedience was ...

Another of Francis's favourite images, Johann Georg Melchior Schmidtner's Mary, Untier of Knots (around 1700), was a revelation to many Catholics, one that he popularised first in Argentina and ...

Jessica Mendoza: That day in February, Francis reviewed documents underneath a cherished painting depicting Mary, Undoer of Knots. In it, the Virgin Mary is shown unraveling a long ribbon.

Virginia Woolf didn’t realize when she began to publish her own work more than 100-years ago that she would birth a cottage ...

Our Blessed Lady has come to me; she has smiled at me,’ Thérèse marveled, as we mark the centenary of her canonization.

Mary, wife of Thomas, was a resident of the left bank area of the Upper Sholayar reservoir. She died in the attack by a male elephant around 1.30 p.m. on Thursday. Forest Department officials said ...

For over a decade, Francis had struggled to bring some transparency to the Vatican’s shadowy balance sheet. Now, in the final weeks of his life, advisers were filtering in and out of his austere ...