We Fly to Thy Protection (Sub Tuum Praesidium)
The oldest known Marian prayer, found on an Egyptian papyrus of the third century, invoking the protection of the Mother of God.
Official prayer
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.
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.