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The ancient Greeks celebrated Rhea, mother of the gods, during the spring. In the early days of Christianity, Mother Church was celebrated as Christianity spread in Europe. In the 1600s, Europeans started to celebrate the Virgin Mary. This morphed into Mothering Day in England, where servants of the elite were sent home over the weekend to honor their Moms. This day was celebrated with a "Mothering Cake."
English colonists discontinued Mothering Sunday. They didn't play or celebrate, and were more of the hard work, hard worship type.
It wasn't until after the American Civil War that modern Mother's Day began to see the light. Julia Ward Howe, author of "The Battle Hymn of the Republic," attempted to get a peace resolution passed in an international council. This "Mother's Day of Peace" was an attempt to inspire others to join the cause for peace, coming on the heels of the horrific carnage of the Civil War.
Howe's work was based on the ideas of Anne Marie Reeves Jarvis, a woman who started "Mother's Friendship Day" to promote sanitation and act to reconcile both the North and South in the aftermath of the Civil War.
Jarvis' daughter, Anna, continued her mother's ideas after Jarvis' death. Anna's letter-writing campaign led to President Woodrow Wilson signing the proclamation in 1914 to set aside the second Sunday in May to honor mothers.


The History of Mother's Day, www.theholidayspot.com/mothersday