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The Authentic Mother’s Day Holiday: Enjoyable the World Over

The Mothers Day holiday is quite recognizable to most people as an occasion of commemorating the love & appreciation felt for mommies everywhere. The occasions of the present- day U.S. & many other countries date back to an essay penned by Julia Ward Hose in the 1870s, and later when Anna Jarvis promoted setting an official celebration in the early 1900s. The earliest origins of the modern Mothers’ Day, however, may lie in the society of the ancient Greeks. The Greeks held a festival in those days that functioned to honor mother goddesses, and human mothers by extension, every year around the winter to spring equinox. After the Romans took power later on, they continued this tradition.