“You know, I’ve never really thought to ask this, so I’ll ask it here - why is the Catholic Church the only one that puts so much emphasis on Mary? When Protestant churches split off from the Church, why did they leave that part behind?”
Martin Luther himself put the same emphasis on Mary. My belief is that Satan was able to deceive protestants into accepting many of God’s blessings because they were weakened by their refusal of the eucharist.
It’s not just the Blessed Virgin. There are many other blessings that God, as the Good Shepherd, as most loving of fathers, wishes to bestow on us, and which protestants scorn.
But Protestant churches do have the Eucharist - maybe not in the same way the Catholic Church does, but they have some kind of Communion.