Under Your Protection
The oldest known prayer to Mary, found on an Egyptian papyrus from around the third century. Even then, Christians fled to her protection in times of danger — and the words have not changed since. Whoever prays it joins a chain of seventeen centuries of trust.
We fly to thy protection, O holy Mother of God; despise not our petitions in our necessities, but deliver us always from all dangers, O glorious and blessed Virgin. Amen.