Collyridians
a sect toward the close of the 4th century, so denominated from the little cakes which they offered to the Virgin Mary. The sect consisted chiefly of Arabian women, who met on a certain day of the year to celebrate a solemn feast and to render divine honors to the Virgin as to a goddess, eating the cakes which they offered in her name.
While pagans they had been accustomed to offer similar cakes to Venus or Astarte.