Mother’s Day is a holiday we celebrate to honor our mothers and our stepmothers. Many of us our moms so much for all their hard work, their love and most importantly the patience that they show us as we grow up and they raise us. There’s nothing quite like the love of a mother for her children.
The tradition of Mother’s Day can be traced back to spring festivals in ancient Greece, which paid tribute to the mother of their gods. The clearest modern no reason for celebrating Mother’s Day is linked back to the early Christian festival known as Mothering Sunday. During the 1600 England the fourth Sunday of Lent which was two Sundays before Easter Sunday became known as Mothering Sunday. On this day Christians honored Mary the mother of Jesus Christ. They would do this by decorating churches with flowers as well as jewels. Soon thereafter the Mothering Sunday celebrations started to include the celebration of actual mothers as well, not just Mary. During this day maids as well as servants were permitted to go and travel Holmes’s visit their mothers to.
Simnel cake
Families would eat lots of food and give small presents to their mothers in celebration. Many times the most popular treat during Mothering Sunday was a cake. This cake was called a Seminel cake. They was filled with spices and fruits as well as a gift for Mom
Mother’s Day is a national holiday in the United States
The holiday was introduced by a hard-working mother and activist from Virginia. Her Name was Anna Reeves Jarvis. She was critical in starting Mother’s Day work clubs or mother friendship clubs. These clubs were created to teach local women how to properly care for their children.
In the years after the end of the civil war. Anna was a driving force in saving the lives of thousands by teaching women with her mother’s French at clubs. Mothers were taught the basics of nursing as well as sanitation which helped to, not only keeps their children clean and well taken care of, but also as healthy as possible. Anna Reeves wish was that someday the importance and role of a mother’s work would be formally recognized by everyone.
Another reason we celebrate Mother’s Day came from an abolitionist and suffragette named Julia Ward Howe. Julia’s ideas were heavily based on Anna Reeves Jarvis.
In 1870, Julia Ward Howe wrote the Mother’s Day proclamation.
The Mother’s Day proclamation was a call to action that requested mothers to come together promoting world peace. Julia Ward Howe campaigned for a mother’s peace day. This day was to be celebrated every game second. But this version of Mother’s Day only lasted a few years. Arrears drivers died on May 9th 1905, and then her daughter who was also named Anna worked hard to fulfill her mother’s wish.
Recognized Mother’s Day
In 1908, Anna Jarvis crafted a plan to get an official day celebrating Mother’s Day. Anna as well as her friends and supporters began a letter-writing campaign. These letters were created and sent to help create a national holiday to celebrate the importance of being a mother. The younger Anna believed so strongly in her mother’s work as well as the celebration of a recognized Mother’s Day, that she actually left her job to work full-time on this idea.
She worked as hard as she good to make sure the holiday was recognized and celebrated all over the United States of America.
In 1910, after all of her hard work and the work her mother as well as Julia Ward Howe had done before her, Anna Marie got the state of West Virginia to declare Mother’s Day an official holiday.
The rest of the nation soon followed
In 1914 is declared a national holiday, then President Woodrow Wilson declared Mother’s Day to be celebrated on the second Sunday in May. The younger Anna Jarvis was responsible for making the white carnation a popular symbol of Mother’s Day. Red carnations are actually used to celebrate mothers that are still alive. While white carnations are used to place on graves of mothers who have passed off.
The younger Anna Jarvis who many considered the mother of Mother’s Day never had any children of her own.
After she died in 1948 at the age of 84, she was brave next to her mother and Philadelphia Pennsylvania.
At the time Anna Jarvis died, today she worked so hard to help create Mother’s Day was being celebrated in over 40 countries. Now today Mother’s Day is celebrated in over 70 nations all around the globe.
It is used to celebrate all of these special women in all of our lives
Even though there are many countries that celebrate Mother’s Day, many other countries celebrate their own Mother’s Day at different times throughout the year. For example the United Kingdom celebrates it on the fourth Sunday of Lent, but in Norway it is celebrated on the second Sunday of February. In Egypt Mother’s Day is celebrated on the first day of spring. Besides the United States the Philippines, Japan, Denmark, Finland, Italy, turkey, Australia and Belgium celebrate Mother’s Day on the second Sunday of May.
Entirely on Mother’s Day celebrated in August. This day coincides with the birthday of their current Queen surrogate. In Ethiopia Mother’s Day is celebrated with large feasting as well as singing and dancing. In Brazil Mother’s Day is the second biggest holiday with Christmas being the first. In Serbia they celebrate the entire family in the same month. In Germany Mother’s Day is called Muttertag.
One of the most popular gestures for Mother’s Day is giving Mother’s Day cards. In Australia is common tradition to give carnations chrysanthemums as well as other flowers. In Sweden plastic flowers are sold on Mother’s Day and the money raised buying these plastic flowers is then used to help mothers and their children who are in need of help.
Mother’s Day is the biggest day of the year for restaurants and there are easily over a hundred million farm calls made just on Mother’s Day every single year. Here are a few facts about Mother’s Day there was a stamp created to commemorate Mother’s Day in 1934
