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Happy Mothers Day!
The modern Mother's Day is celebrated on various days in many parts of the world.
Most commonly in May, although also in March, it is a day to honor mothers and motherhood.
In the United States it was nationally recognized as a holiday in 1914 after a campaign by Anna Jarvis. >
The "Mother's Day Proclamation" by Julia Ward Howe was one of the early calls to celebrate
Mother's Day in the United States.
Written in 1870, Howe's Mother's Day
Proclamation was a pacifist reaction to the carnage of the American
Civil War and the Franco-Prussian War.
The Proclamation was tied to
Howe's feminist belief that women had a responsibility to shape their
societies at the political level.
In some countries, it follows the old traditions of Mothering Sunday.
Lamberts thought this day
emerged from a custom of mother worship in Ancient
Greece, which kept a festival to , a
great mother of Greek gods. This festival was held around the around Asia Minor and
eventually in Rome itself from the Ides
of March (15 March) to 18 March
In Europe there were several long standing traditions where a specific Sunday was set aside to honor motherhood and mothers such as Mothering Sunday. Mothering Sunday celebrations.
These are part of the liturgical calendar in several Christian denominations, including Anglicans, and in the Catholic calendar is marked as Laetare Sunday, the fourth Sunday in Lent to honor the Virgin Mary and your "mother" church (the main church of the area).
Historians think that children who served in houses were given a day off at that date so they could visit their family.
The children would pick wild flowers along the way to place them on the church or to gift them to their mothers.
So there you go!
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