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Mother's Day definition brought to you by Wikipedia:
Mother's Day is a day honoring mothers, celebrated on various days in many places around the world. Mothers often receive gifts, including gift baskets on this day. It complements Father's Day, the celebration honoring fathers.
Different countries celebrate Mother's Day on various days of the year because the day has a number of different origins.
One school of thought claims this day emerged from a custom of mother worship in ancient Greece, which kept a festival to Cybele, a great mother of Greek gods. This festival was held around the Vernal Equinox around Asia Minor and eventually in Rome itself from the Ides of March (15 March) to 18 March.
The ancient Romans also had another holiday, Matronalia, that was dedicated to Juno, though mothers were usually given gifts on this day.
In some countries the Mother's Day began not as a celebration for individual mothers but rather for Christians.
Mothering Sunday in Britain & Ireland:
Mothering Sunday, also called "Mothers' Day" in the United Kingdom and Ireland falls on the fourth Sunday of Lent (exactly three weeks before Easter Sunday). It is believed to have originated from the 16th century Christian practice of visiting one's mother church annually, which meant that most mothers would be reunited with their children on this day. Most historians believe that young apprentices and young women in servitude were released by their masters that weekend in order to visit their families. As a result of secularization, it is now principally used to celebrate and give thanks for mothers, although it is still recognized in the historical sense by some churches, with attention paid to Mary the mother of Jesus as well as the traditional concept 'Mother Church'.
Mothering Sunday can fall at earliest on March 1st (in years when Easter Day falls on March 22nd) and at latest on April 4th (when Easter Day falls on April 25th).
Mother's Day in the United States:
The United States celebrate Mother's Day on the second Sunday in May. In the United States, Mother's Day was loosely inspired by the British day and was imported by social activist Julia Ward Howe after the American Civil War. However, it was intended as a call to unite women against war. In 1870, she wrote the Mother's Day Proclamation as a call for peace and disarmament. Howe failed in her attempt to get formal recognition of a Mother's Day for Peace. Her idea was influenced by Ann Jarvis, a young Appalachian homemaker who, starting in 1858, had attempted to improve sanitation through what she called Mothers' Work Days. She organized women throughout the Civil War to work for better sanitary conditions for both sides, and in 1868 she began work to reconcile Union and Confederate neighbors. In parts of the United States it is customary to plant tomatoes outdoors after Mother's Day (and not before).
When Jarvis died in 1907, her daughter, named Anna Jarvis, started the crusade to found a memorial day for women. The first such Mother's Day was celebrated in Grafton, West Virginia, on 10 May 1908, in the church where the elder Ann Jarvis had taught Sunday School. Grafton is the home to the International Mother's Day Shrine. From there, the custom caught on — spreading eventually to 45 states. The holiday was declared officially by some states beginning in 1912. In 1914 President Woodrow Wilson declared the first national Mother's Day, as a day for American citizens to show the flag in honor of those mothers whose sons had died in war.
Nine years after the first official Mother's Day, commercialization of the U.S. holiday became so rampant that Anna Jarvis herself became a major opponent of what the holiday had become. Mother's Day continues to this day to be one of the most commercially successful U.S. occasions. According to the National Restaurant Association, Mother's Day is now the most popular day of the year to dine out at a restaurant in the United States.
Mother's Day in various parts of the world:
In most countries, Mother's Day is a new concept copied from western civilization. In many African countries, the idea of one Mother's Day has its origins in copying the British concept, although there are many festivals and events celebrating mothers within the many diverse cultures on the African continent that have been there centuries before the colonials arrived. In most of East Asia, Mother's Day is a heavily marketed and commercialized concept copied straight from Mother's Day in the USA.
Mother's Day is celebrated on different days throughout the world. Examining the trends in Google searches for the term "mother's day" shows two major blips, the smaller one on the fourth Sunday in Lent (it is also called ladies day and women's day), and the larger one on the second Sunday in May.
Note: The definition used in the following table allows "Women's day" to be treated the same as "Mother's Day".
Mother's Day in various regions:
Second Sunday in February - Norway
Shevat 30 (falls anywhere between January 30 and March 1) - Israel
March 3 - Georgia
March 8 - Afghanistan, Albania*, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Laos, Macedonia*, Mongolia*, Montenegro, Romania*, Russia*, Serbia, Ukraine. *In Albania, Belarus, Bulgaria, Guyana, Italy, Macedonia, Mongolia, and Russia it is observed as International Women's Day, not specifically Mothers' day.
Fourth Sunday in Lent (Mothering Sunday - March 2 in 2008) - Ireland, Nigeria, United Kingdom
March 21 (first day of spring) - Bahrain, Egypt, Iraq, Jordan, Kuwait, Oman, Lebanon, Palestine, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Sudan, Syria, United Arab Emirates, Yemen (All Arab countries in general)
March 25 - Slovenia
April 7 - Armenia
Baisakh Amavasya (Mata Tirtha Aunsi) Nepal
First Sunday in May - Hungary, Lithuania, Portugal, Spain
May 8 - Albania (Parents' Day), South Korea(Parents' Day).
May 10 - El Salvador, Guatemala, Mexico
Second Sunday in May
- Anguilla, Aruba, Australia, Austria, Bahamas, Bangladesh, Barbados, Belgium, Belize, Bermuda, Bonaire, Brazil, Brunei, Bulgaria, Canada, Chile, China, Colombia, Croatia, Cuba, Curaçao, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Ecuador, Estonia, Finland, Germany, Ghana, Greece, Grenada, Honduras, Hong Kong, Iceland, India, Italy, Jamaica, Japan, Latvia, Malta, Malaysia, Myanmar, The Netherlands, New Zealand, Pakistan, Peru, Philippines, Puerto Rico, Singapore, Slovakia, South Africa, St. Lucia, Suriname, Switzerland, Taiwan, Trinidad and Tobago, Turkey, Ukraine, United States, Uruguay, Venezuela, Zimbabwe
May 26 - Poland
May 27 - Bolivia
Last Sunday in May - Algeria, Dominican Republic, France (except if it coincides with Pentecost day, in which case Mother's Day will be shifted to the first Sunday of June), Haiti, Mauritius, Morocco, Sweden, Tunisia.
May 30 - Nicaragua
June 1 - Mongolia (The Mothers and Children's Day. Mongolia is the only country that celebrates Mother's Day twice a year.)
2nd Sunday of June - Luxembourg
Last Sunday of June - Kenya
August 12 - Thailand (the birthday of Queen Sirikit Kitiyakara)
August 15 (Assumption Day) - Antwerp (Belgium), Costa Rica
Second Monday in October - Malawi
October 14 - Belarus
Third Sunday in October - Argentina (Día de la Madre)
Last Sunday of November - Russia
December 8 - Panama
16 December, Iranian calendar: 25 - Azar (Mother And Child Foundation) Iran (This date is almost deprecated inside Iran and is replaced by birthdate of Fatimah daughter of Islam prophet.)
December 22 - Indonesia
Mother's Day in various languages:
Afrikaans: Moedersdag
Albanian: Dita e Nënës (8 Marsi)
Arabic : عيد الأمّ (Eid Al-Omm)
Armenian : Մայրության օր (Mayrutyan or)
Azerbaijani : Analar günü
Berber : tameγra n tyemmat
Bosnian : Dan majki
Bulgarian : Ден на майката
Catalan : Dia de la Mare
Chinese : 母亲节 or 母親節 (in standard pinyin: Mǔqīn Jié)
Croatian : Majčin dan
Czech : Den Matek
Danish : Mors dag
Dari : روز مادر (Ruz-e Madar)
Divehi:މަންމައިންގް ދުވަސް
Dutch : Moederdag
Estonian : Emadepäev
Finnish : Äitienpäivä
Faroese : Mammudagur
Farsi : روز مادر (Rouz-e Maadar)
French : (La) Fête des mères ("Day of Mothers")
German : Muttertag
Greek : Γιορτή της Μητέρας
Hebrew : יום האם (Yom ha-em) or יום המשפחה (Yom ha-mishpakha - "Family Day")
Hindi : Matru divas
Hungarian : anyák napja
Icelandic : Mæðradagur
Indonesian : Hari Ibu
Irish:Lá na Máithreacha
Italian : (La) Festa della mamma
Japanese : 母の日 (Haha no Hi)
Kannada : ತಾಯಂದಿರ ದಿನ (thayandira dina)
Kikuyu: Muthenya wa nyina muciari
Korean : 어머니날 (Eomeoni-nal or Ŏmŏni-nal)
Kurdish : Roje dayeka
Latvian : Mātes diena
Lithuanian : Motinos diena
Malay : Hari Ibu
Malayalam : Ammamar Dinam
Maltese : Jum l-Omm
Mauritian Creole: Bonne fête mama
Mongolian : Eejiin bayar / Eh ursiin udur
Norwegian : Morsdag
Polish : Dzień Matki
Portuguese (standard) : (O) Dia da Mãe
Portuguese (Brazilian) : Dia das Mães ("Day of Mothers")
Romanian : Ziua mamei ("Mother's Day")
Russian : День Матери
Serbian : Dan majki / Дан мајки
Slovak : Deň matiek
Slovenian : Materinski dan
Spanish : Día de la Madre
Swahili : siku ya mama mzazi
Swedish : Mors dag
Tagalog : Araw ng mga Ina / Araw ng mga Nanay ("Day of Mothers")
Tamil : Annaiyar Dhinam
Thai : วันแม่ [wɑn mɛː]
Telugu : Thalli kosamu
Turkish : Anneler Günü
Ukrainian : Свято Матері
Vietnamese : Ngày của Mẹ (officially Ngay quoc te Nu - "International Women's Day")
Welsh : Sul y Mamau
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