the site didn’t give that detail, or else i would have provided it. there are many prayers to Mary by him. you do know that the earliest recorded prayers to her and the saints are from the second century, and by the 4th century there is overwelming documentation of such prayers. you keep alluding to his maturing in faith as he got older, you can look long and hard and he never condemned the practice. and as we both know, he was not shy about fighting heresy.
Not a time to emulate.