Who came up with Mother’s Day?
May 12, 2008 in Who
Do you know that Mother’s Day is not celebrated in India though the day is used by children and husbands to honor mothers and grandmothers for all that they do in raising children?
How sad that many of western holidays that are created to honor or appreciate the humanity have not reached the whole world?
Mother’s Day began in the 1600s in England and earmarked on the fourth Sunday of Lent.
Surprisingly, the U.S. followed suit only after 172 years. The credit should go to Julia Ward Howe who was never a mother herself who led the campaign for national recognition of Mother’s Day.
Wait! There is more interesting news! It was only in 1910, that West Virginia became the first state to recognize the new holiday, and the nation followed in 1914 when President Wilson declared the second Sunday in May to be Mother’s Day.
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