Every May women around the world are celebrated for their sacrifices and con -tributions to the family. With all that Mom does for her children, it would seem like the concept of honoring her would be ages old. However, it really wasn’t until rela -tively recently that a celebration of moth -ers was instituted.

In ancient Greece individuals hon -ored Rhea, mother of the gods. Christians also celebrated Mary the mother of God.But it wasn’t until the 1900s before the general mothering population was cele -brated in earnest.

Ann Marie Reeves Jarvis was a young Appalachian homemaker who, beginning in 1858, attempted to improve sanitation and nursing procedures through women’s clubs and what she called “Mothers Friendship Day.” It wasn’t Anne Marie,but rather her daughter, Ann Jarvis, who created the Mother’s Day that we cele - brate today.

Anna spent many years caring for her aging and ailing mother. Anne Marie died on May 9, 1905 and Anna missed her ter -ribly. Anna noticed that many children

Mother’s Day Historyfailed to respect and honor their mothers while they were alive, and it wasn’t until after they died that these children rec -ognized what they had lost in their parent.She intended to start a Mother’s Day to honor mothers.

In 1907, Anna Jarvis attempted to establish Mother’s Day to “honor mothers,living and dead.” She started the cam -paign to establish a national Mother’s Day.Together with her friends, Jarvis started a letter-writing campaign to urge ministers,businessmen and congressmen to declare a national Mother’s Day holiday.

Her efforts paid off. The first Mother’s Day was celebrated on May 10, 1908 and honored the late Anne Marie Reeves Jarvis. After this initial celebration,Mother’s Day caught on.The Mother’s Day International Association was established on December 12, 1912, to promote and encourage meaningful observances of the event. And on May 9, 1914, a presidential proclamation declared that every year the second Sunday in May would be observed as Mother’s Day.

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Mother’s Day is celebrated on various days in many parts of the world. Manycountries and cultures choose to celebrate Mother’s Day in March, April or May.Though the Mother’s Day many people know today dates back a little more than a century, historians note that ancient Romans kept a festival to Cybele, a great mother of the Gods. In addition, Europe has several traditions aimed at honoring mothers that date back quite a while.

One of the traditions associated with the current Mother’s Day is to give Mom a gift. Some people only give their own mothers and wives gifts, while others extend their generosity to sisters with chil -dren, mothers-in-law and even grand -mothers. Chances are, over the years Mom’s gifts have run the gamut, from a homemade treasure kids made in elemen -tary school to jewelry from hubby to breakfast in bed. For those who want to add a literary tilt to their Mother’s Day gift this year, consider including any of the fol -lowing motherly quotes when preparing a gift Mom won’t soon forget.

• “Of all the rights of women, the greatest is to be a mother.” - Lin Yutang,Chinese writer

• “I remember my mother’s prayers

Famous Quotes for Mother’s Dayand they have always followed me. Theyhave clung to me all my life.” - Abraham Lincoln, 16th President of the United States of America

• “Youth fades; love droops; the leaves of friendship fall; A mother’s secret hope outlives them all.” - Oliver Wendell Holmes, American author

• “A man loves his sweetheart the most, his wife the best, but his mother the longest.” - Irish proverb

• “All women become like their moth -ers. That is their tragedy. No man does.That’s his.” - Oscar Wilde, Irish poet

• “If I was damned of body and soul, I know whose prayers would make me whole, Mother o’ mine, O mother o’ mine.” - Rudyard Kipling, in his poem “Mother O’ Mine”

• “The heart of a mother is a deep abyss at the bottom of which you will always find forgiveness.” - Honore de Balzac, French playwright

• “The future destiny of a child is always the work of the mother.” - Napoleon Bonaparte, Emperor of France

• “The God to whom little boys say their prayers has a face very like their mothers’.” - James Matthew Barrie, Scottish author