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.
Sub tuum præsidium
We fly to thy protection
Fear, night, any danger that does not wait for a long prayer.
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Latin
Sub tuum præsídium confúgimus, Sancta Dei Génetrix; nostras deprecatiónes ne despícias in necessitátibus, sed a perículis cunctis líbera nos semper, Virgo gloriósa et benedícta.
Where it comes from
The oldest Marian prayer we still have — a 3rd-century Egyptian papyrus.
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