[CynicalBear]

>>But curiously, the Protestant translations have "favor" when talking about grace in Mary, but switch to "grace" when the need to fool the reader went away.<<

Luke 1:28 And the messenger having come in unto her, said, 'Hail, favoured one (kecharitōmenē), the Lord is with thee;

kecharitōmenē - I favor, bestow freely on [http://biblehub.com/greek/5487.htm]

[annalex]

"χαρις" is root of "κεχαριτωμενη", professor. That almost everywhere in the New Testament is translated "grace", unless the topic is favor done by one human to another. Except in Luke 1 where it becomes, curiously, "favor".