Nice cut and paste Steelfish.
I can’t wait to see your evidence from before 100 AD that praying to departed saints was practiced.
So far you’ve posted nothing that proves your assertion. If you have it, I would really appreciate it if you share it here.
I don’t think it exists.
If you read carefully, you’d find scriptural support for this and evidence of early Church tradition. The old saying, “there are none so blind as those who refuse to see” applies here.