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Mother's Day in Britain always falls on the fourth Sunday in Lent while in many other countries, most notably the USA, it is celebrated on the second Sunday in May.
Mothering Sunday was originally a time when people returned to the church, in which they were baptized or where they attended services when they were children. This meant that families were reunited, as adults returned to the towns and villages where they grew up. Later it became accepted practice for the rich to allow their servants to visit their families on the day. They could use this day to visit their own mother and often took a gift of food or hand-me-down clothing from their employers to her. In turn, this moved towards the modern holiday, on which people still visit and take gifts to their mothers.
However, springtime celebration of the matriarch goes back much further than that. From as far back as 250BC, the Romans chose the Ides of March to make offerings in the temple of Cybele, the Mother of the Gods. But even before that the ancient Greeks celebrated their equivalent, Rhea, in the spring.
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Mother's Day in Britain always falls on the fourth Sunday in Lent while in many other countries, most notably the USA, it is celebrated on the second Sunday in May.
Mothering Sunday was originally a time when people returned to the church, in which they were baptized or where they attended services when they were children. This meant that families were reunited, as adults returned to the towns and villages where they grew up. Later it became accepted practice for the rich to allow their servants to visit their families on the day. They could use this day to visit their own mother and often took a gift of food or hand-me-down clothing from their employers to her. In turn, this moved towards the modern holiday, on which people still visit and take gifts to their mothers.
However, springtime celebration of the matriarch goes back much further than that. From as far back as 250BC, the Romans chose the Ides of March to make offerings in the temple of Cybele, the Mother of the Gods. But even before that the ancient Greeks celebrated their equivalent, Rhea, in the spring.
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