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 ...

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.

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 ...

Later in his life, Pope Francis promoted devotion to Mary, the Undoer of Knots, inspired by a German painting of 1700 that has theological roots going back to St. Irenaeus (c. 135–202). Pope Francis ...

The installation was an homage to one of Pope Francis' favorite paintings, "Mary, Undoer of Knots." During the visit, Sister Mary had the opportunity to hug the pope and speak with him briefly.

Of the many devotions Pope Francis promoted during his pontificate, perhaps none is better known than his devotion to Our Lady, Undoer of Knots (also referred to as Our Lady, Untier of Knots ...

Before he became Pope Francis, Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio was a devotee of La Virgen Desatanudos — Mary the untier of knots, the virgin mother of Jesus as a solver of gnarly problems. He would ...

Photograph by Grupo44, LatinContent WO, Getty Images Fond of Johann Georg Schmidtner’s “Mary, Untier of Knots,” Francis commissioned a replica. It has hung in the Buenos Aires’ Church of ...

Before he became Pope Francis, Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio was a devotee of La Virgen Desatanudos; Mary the untier of knots, the virgin mother of Jesus as a solver of gnarly problems.