The Hail Mary was not adopted before the 11th century as a popular form of devotion. The same erroneous observation appears in Peter of Celle, about 1157 (PL 202:654, 711, 724). This interesting adaptation can be seen in the ninth century hymn, Deus qui mundum crimine jacentem.
Sometimes the combination of both texts as a single formula is ascribed to the Archangel Gabriel, an interpretation derived from the Latin Gospel of the pseudo-Matthew. It is found also in the Church of Santa Maria Antiqua (seventh –eighth century) in a mutilated inscription that accompanies a painting of the Annunciation. It is in this original form that it was used in the Middle Ages. In the seventh century, it is found in the Roman antiphonary as an offertory text for the feast of the Annunciation, the Ember Wednesday of Advent, and the fourth Sunday of Advent. Leclercq, Monumenta Ecclesiae Liturgica 213,236). This first part of the prayer appears also in two Egyptian ostraca of the sixth or seventh century (H.
To the formula have been added the words: "Because you have conceived Christ, the Redeemer of our souls". Mark, the Ethiopic of the 12 Apostles, and the ritual of Severus of Antioch (d. In the sixth century, the texts of the Archangel and Elizabeth are found as a single formula in the ancient liturgies of St. Amen." The prayer is the result of a gradual development from the sixth century to the 16th when the present wording was adopted as general liturgical usage. The form of prayer also known as the Angelic Salutation consists of three parts: the words of the Archangel Gabriel (Lk 1.28), "Hail full of grace, the Lord is with Thee, blessed art thou amongst women " the words of Elizabeth (Lk 1.42), "Blessed is the fruit of thy womb ," and a formula of petition, "Holy Mary, Mother of God, pray for us sinners now and at the hour of our death.
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