Mary was called the Virgin with such regularity that modern liberal schools asserted that she was confused with pagan goddesses such as Athena who were known as Virgins. This, of course, assumed that the Virgin Birth was a myth, one useful to Christians to promote the divinity of Jesus. But interest in Mary in the second century and following is surprising if one assumes that most Christians gained all their knowledge from Scripture. Unlikely that all churches even had copies of the whole New Testament. Christians works abounded, and the pro-gospel of St. James, the most famous of them provides a picture of the early life of Mary as well as Jesus. The doctrine of the Incarnation cannot, of course, be discussed without reference to Mary’s role. Many Marian devotions use language even i find excessive, but what surprises me is the downplaying of Mary even at Xmas time.
There is really nothing new under the sun, just look back to what the House of Israel and House of Judah did in their idolatry, so much so it is recorded in Jeremiah that God divorced the adulterous House of Israel. Jeremiah 3:8-25.
Paul says ICorinthians 10:11 Now all these things happened unto them for ensamples; and they are written for our admonition, upon whom the ends of the world are come.
We have the script of what would take place again and over and over again the warning is about false prophets drawing the children astray... and no doctrine is left untouched.