Hail Mary Latin in the 6th century, Herbert Thurston, writing in the "Catholic Encyclopedia" concludes that "there is little or no trace of the Hail Mary as an accepted devotional formula before about 1050", (though a later pious tale attributed to Ildephonsus of Toledo (fl. 7th century) the use of the first part, namely the angel's greeting to Mary, without that of Elizabeth, as a prayer). All the evidence suggests that it took its rise from certain versicles and responsories occurring in the Little Office of the Blessed Virgin Mary, which just at that time was coming into favour among the monastic
Mary Star of the Sea Church, Grand Case Latin rite and depends on the Diocese of Basse-Terre ("Dioecesis Imae Telluris et Petrirostrensis" or "Diocèse de Basse-Terre et Pointe-à-Pitre") which was created in 1850 by Pope Pius IX and has its Seat in the Island of Guadalupe of which until 2007 also depended all the French territory of the Island of San Martin. Its construction began in parallel to the Catholic Church of Marigot (dedicated to Saint Martin of Tours) in the 1940s. As its name suggests it is dedicated to Saint Mary the mother of God in her invocation of Mary Star of the Sea (called in Latin: