According to a website account by Hedwig Lewis, SJ, (http://joygift.tripod.com, posted in 2013) in the '80s, the then Jesuit priest Jorge Mario Bergoglio, who would become Pope Francis, was doing his doctoral studies in theology in Freiburg, Germany, when he came across a painting in a church in Augsburg titled "Mary Untier of Knots."
The college staff were so attracted by it that they persuaded the local pastor to get a larger copy made Eventually, devotion to Mary under the title 'Untier of Knots' spread across Latin America."
The original Baroque painting of "Mary Untier of Knots" was by Johann George Melchior Schmidtner, dating back to 1700, and is found in the church of St.