{"id":56122,"date":"2022-08-02T08:35:57","date_gmt":"2022-08-02T12:35:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/?p=56122"},"modified":"2022-09-10T16:27:43","modified_gmt":"2022-09-10T20:27:43","slug":"oldest-known-prayer-to-mary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/oldest-known-prayer-to-mary\/","title":{"rendered":"Oldest Known Prayer To Mary"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>From Aleteia:<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/wp.en.aleteia.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2016\/07\/rylands-papyrus-470.jpg\" alt=\"The earliest known prayer to the Theotokos (in the original Greek \u201c\u0398\u03b5\u03bf\u03c4\u03bf\u03ba\u03bf\u03c2\u201d means \u201cBearer of God\u201d), that is, to the Virgin Mary, is found on a fragment of papyrus, which dates all the way back to approximately AD 250\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>Beneath thy compassion,<\/em><em>\u2028 w<\/em><em>e take refuge, O Mother of God:<\/em><em>\u00a0do not despise our petitions in time of trouble,\u00a0<\/em><em>but rescue us from dangers, <\/em><em>only pure one, only blessed one.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"ap-story-p\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.spiritdaily.com\/angellily.jpg\" width=\"100\" height=\"194\" align=\"middle\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"ap-story-p\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times;\"><em>Pray always for purity and love<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"ap-story-p\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times;\"> <em> Please <a href=\"mailto:spiritdaily333@gmail.com\">report<\/a> any inappropriate ads or paid content<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"gsp_post_data\" \r\n\t            data-post_type=\"post\" \r\n\t            data-cat=\"uncategorized\" \r\n\t            data-modified=\"120\"\r\n\t            data-created=\"1659429357\"\r\n\t            data-title=\"Oldest Known Prayer To Mary\" \r\n\t            data-home=\"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Aleteia: Beneath thy compassion,\u2028 we take refuge, O Mother of God:\u00a0do not despise our petitions in time of trouble,\u00a0but.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-56122","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized","7":"entry"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56122","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=56122"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56122\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56122"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56122"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}