In most countries, Mother's Day is a recent observance
derived from the holiday as it has evolved in the United States. As adopted by
other countries and cultures, the holiday has different meanings, is associated
with different events (religious, historical or legendary), and is celebrated
on different dates.
Brazil
In Brazil,
Mother's Day is celebrated on the second Sunday of May.The first Mother's Day
in Brazil was promoted by Associação Cristã de Moços de Porto Alegre (Young Men's Christian Association of
Porto Alegre) on 12 May 1918. In 1932, then President Getúlio
Vargas made
the second Sunday of May the official date for Mother's Day. In 1947,
Archbishop Jaime de Barros Câmara,
Cardinal-Archbishop of Rio de Janeiro, decided that this holiday would also be
included in the official calendar of the Catholic Church.
Italy
Mother's Day
in Italy was
celebrated for the first time on 12 May 1957, in the city of Assisi,
thanks to the initiative of Rev. Otello Migliosi, parish priest of the Tordibetto church. This
celebration was so successful that the following year Mother's Day was adopted
throughout Italy. In 18 December 1958 a proposal was presented to the Italian Senate to
make official the holiday. It is celebrated on the second Sunday in May.
Romania
In Romania,
since 2010, Mother's Day is celebrated on the first Sunday of May.Law 319/2009
made both Mother's Day and Father's Day official holidays in Romania. The
measure was passed thanks to campaign efforts from the Alliance Fighting
Discrimination Against Fathers (TATA). Previously, Mother's Day was
celebrated on 8 March, as part of International Women's Day (a
tradition from the days when Romania was part of the communist
block). Now Mother's Day and Women's Day are two separate
holidays, with Women's Day keeping its original date of 8 March.
Sweden
In Sweden,
Mother's Day was first celebrated in 1919, by initiative of the author Cecilia
Bååth-Holmberg. It took several decades for the day to be widely recognized.
Swedes born in the early nineteen hundreds typically did not celebrate the day
because of the common belief that the holiday was invented strictly for
commercial purposes. This was in contrast to Father's Day, which has been
widely celebrated in Sweden since the late 1970s. Mother's Day in Sweden is
celebrated on the last Sunday in May. A later date was chosen to allow everyone
to go outside and pick flowers.
United Kingdom
The United Kingdom celebrates Mothering Sunday, which falls on the fourth Sunday
of Lent (10
March in 2013). This holiday has its roots in the church and was originally
unrelated to the American holiday.Most historians believe that Mothering Sunday
evolved from the 16th-century Christian practice of visiting one's mother
church annually on Laetare Sunday.As a result of this tradition, most mothers were reunited with their
children on this day when young apprentices and young women in service were
released by their masters for that weekend. As a result of the influence of the
American Mother's Day, Mothering Day transformed into the tradition of showing
appreciation to one's mother.
United States
The
United States celebrates Mother's Day on the second Sunday in May. In
1872 Julia Ward Howe called for women to join in support of
disarmament and asked for 2 June 1872, to be established as a "Mother's
Day for Peace".Her 1870 "Appeal to womanhood throughout the
world" is sometimes referred to as Mother's Day Proclamation. But Howe's day was not for honoring mothers but
for organizing pacifist mothers against war. In the 1880s and 1890s there were
several further attempts to establish an American "Mother's Day", but
these did not succeed beyond the local level.
Teacher Gustavo
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