{"id":1657,"date":"2017-05-12T04:38:32","date_gmt":"2017-05-11T21:38:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wpbeta.simple.biz\/mcintosh55\/?p=1657"},"modified":"2023-03-04T15:34:06","modified_gmt":"2023-03-04T20:34:06","slug":"history-mothers-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wpbeta.simple.biz\/mcintosh55\/history-mothers-day\/","title":{"rendered":"History of Mother’s Day"},"content":{"rendered":"

Happy Mother’s Day!<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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While we should honor our mothers every day, this is the day set aside to officially honor our mothers. It is the day we honor our mothers including those who are no longer with us.<\/span><\/p>\n

Mother\u2019s Day, \u00a0a holiday honoring motherhood, is observed in different forms throughout the world<\/span><\/p>\n

The History of Mother’s Day<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

The celebration of Mother’s Day began in the US in the early 20th century.\u00a0It is not related to the many celebrations of mothers and motherhood that have occurred throughout the world over thousands of years, such as the Greek cult to Cybele, the Roman festival of Hilaria, or the Christian Mothering Sunday celebration (originally a celebration of the mother church, not motherhood).<\/span><\/p>\n

The modern American holiday of Mother’s Day was first celebrated in 1908, when Anna Jarvis held a memorial for her mother in Grafton West Virginia. Her campaign to make Mother’s Day a recognized holiday in the United States began in 1905.\u00a0It was that year her beloved mother, Ann Reeves Jarvis, died. Due to her efforts, in 1914 Woodrow Wilson signed the proclamation creating Mother’s Day, the second Sunday in May, as a national holiday to honor mothers.<\/span><\/p>\n

Other early Mother\u2019s Day pioneers include Juliet Calhoun Blakely, a temperance\u00a0 activist who inspired a local Mother\u2019s Day in Albion, Michigan, in the 1870s. Slightly later,\u00a0Mary Towles Sasseen and Frank Hering both worked to organize a Mothers\u2019 Day in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Some have even called Hering \u201cthe father of Mothers Day”.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Happy Mother’s Day! \u00a0Ancient Artifacts & Treasures, Inc.   While we should honor our mothers every day, this is the day set aside to officially honor our mothers. It is the day we honor our mothers including those who are no longer with us. Mother\u2019s Day, \u00a0a holiday honoring motherhood, is observed in different forms …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":51,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[401],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1657","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mothers-day"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t