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The modern version of Marian devotion is completely different to anything practiced in the early church. They held her in high regard as the Mother of God and considered her a perpetual virgin. However, the cult of Mary and the Saints only became more prominent and like what it is today in the late 4th century and throughout the 5th century. Before hand, it was merely acknowledged that angels and saints pray for the church, not that anyone ought to pray to them for intercession.

Not to mention, that Marian prayer has also been dated as being from the 3rd to the 9th century by different scholars. It only entered common use in the 6th and 7th centuries so later is more likely.