This Catholic devotion has grown since Jorge Mario Bergoglio, S.J. (later Archbishop of Buenos Aires and Pope Francis), brought a copy of the painting to Argentina in the 1980s after seeing the original while studying in Germany.[3][4] The devotion reached Brazil near the end of the 20th century. According to Regina Novaes, of the Institute of Religious Studies in Rio de Janeiro, Mary Untier of Knots "attracts people with small problems".[2] Bergoglio had this image of Mary engraved on a chalice he presented to Pope Benedict XVI and another chalice bearing her image, the work of the same silversmith, is to be presented to Pope Francis on behalf of the Argentine people.[3]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Untier_of_Knots
Mariology of Popes JPII and PE Benedict XVI
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mariology_of_the_popes#John_Paul_II
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Very nice!
I love our new pope’s devotion to Our Lady. BXVI was also devoted to her, but Francis has that wonderful, expressive Spanish devotion.
Spain received the privilege of using blue vestments - blue was not a liturgical color - for certain Marian feasts (the Assumption, for example) because of the great Spanish devotion to Our Lady, particularly in her image as the Immaculate Conception.
Mariology of Popes JPII and PE Benedict XVI
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mariology_of_the_popes#John_Paul_II
