“The knot of Eve’s disobedience was untied by Mary’s obedience; what the virgin Eve bound through her unbelief, the Virgin Mary loosened by her faith.”41 In the light of this comparison with Eve, the Fathers of the Church-as the Council also says-call Mary the “mother of the liing” and often speak of “death through Eve, life through Mary.”42 In the expression “Blessed is she who believed,” we can therefore rightly find a kind of “key” which unlocks for us the innermost reality of Mary, whom the angel