[Tax-chick]

I would count that as one of the prayers that every Catholic should know by heart.

"That" what?

(Engrish, please, we're rednecks.)

[Pyro7480]

LOL! The Sub tuum praesidium is the oldest known Marian prayer. They found a version of it on an Egyptian papyrus document that dates from the 3rd century A.D. When St. Maximilian Kolbe was in seminary in Rome around 1916, a priest told him to recite the Sub tuum praesidium every day, which he did for the rest of his life. I follow St. Maximilian's example. I usually say it after the noon-time Angelus.

[Salvation]

SUB tuum praesidium confugimus, Sancta Dei Genetrix. Nostras deprecationes ne despicias in necessitatibus1, sed a periculis cunctis libera nos semper, Virgo gloriosa et benedicta. Amen.

WE fly to thy patronage, 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.