He Mother’s DayAs the name suggests, It’s a day that honors mothers in much of the world, though the date can vary by country and culture. In Argentina the party is celebrated on the third Sunday of October, but not everywhere.
What is the origin of this day? In the ancient world, homage was already paid to the mother. In Greece they honored Rea, the mother of the gods Zeus, Hades and Poseidon; AND in Egypt the same thing was done with Isisthe popular mother goddess.
They too Romans they dubbed this celebration “Hilary”, which was celebrated on March 15 in the temple of Cybele for three days. With the arrival of ChristianityIt began to honor the Virgin Mary every December 8, until 1854.
One of the influential on this date was Julia Ward Howe, an American abolitionist and activist who fought for women’s rights in the mid-19th century. In 1870, Howe gathered mothers who were victims of the Civil War to demonstrate peacefully and began a campaign in the United States to establish Mother’s Day. Some time later, Anna Reeves Jarvis also joined the cause.
In 1914, the president Wilson Woodrow announced that Mother’s Day would be the second Sunday in May, in remembrance of the date the activist’s mother died Anna Reeves Jarvis.
Which countries celebrate Mother’s Day in May?
first Sunday in May
- Spain
- Portugal
- Hungary
- South Africa
- Lithuania
Second Sunday in May
- Germany
- Australia
- Austria
- Belgium
- Brazil
- kilos
- China
- Canada
- Colombia
- Croatia
- Cuba
- Denmark
- Ecuador
- United States of America
- Estonia
- Philippines
- Finland
- Greece
- Holland
- Honduras
- Italy
- Japan
- Latvia
- Liechtenstein
- New Zeland
- Peru
- Puerto Rico
- Czech Republic
- Swiss
- Taiwan
- Turkiye
- Ukraine
- Uruguay
- Venezuela
other days in May
- May 8: Albania and South Korea
- May 10: Saudi Arabia, El Salvador, United Arab Emirates, Guatemala, India, Malaysia, Mexico, Oman, Pakistan, Qatar and Singapore
- May 14: Samoa
- May 15: Paraguay
- May 26: Poland
- May 27: Bolivia
- May 30: Nicaragua
- Last Sunday of May: Dominican Republic and Sweden
- Last Sunday of May or first Sunday of June: France
Source: Clarin
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