Sub tuum praesidium confugimus, sancta Dei Genitrix. Nostras deprecationes ne despecias in necessitatibus, sed a periculis cunctis libera nos semper, Virgo gloriosa et benedicta.
We fly to thy protection, O Holy Mother of God. Despise not our petitions in our necessities, but ever deliver from all dangers, O Glorious and Blessed Virgin.
Yeah ... and it goes back at least as far as the third century, before the Edict of Milan.