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Mother's Day is a time of commemoration(纪念) and celebration for your mom. The earliest Mother's Day celebrations can date 1 to the spring celebrations of ancient Greece in honor of Rhea. During 2, England celebrated a day called “Mothering Sunday”. “Mothering Sunday” honored the mothers of 3.
In the United States, Mother's Day was first suggested in 1872 by Julia Ward Howe. In 1907, Anna Jarvis, from Philadelphia, began a movement to found a 4 Mother's Day. Ms Jarvis persuaded(说服) her mother's church in Grafton, West Virginia to celebrate Mother's Day on the second anniversary(周年纪念) of her mother's 5, the 2nd Sunday of May. And the next year, Mother's Day 6 in Philadelphia. Ms Jarvis and her supporters began to 7 officials, businessmen and politicians, and asked to found a national Mother's Day in the letters. It was successful. 8 1911, Mother's Day had been celebrated in almost every 9. The President, in 1914, announced Mother's Day as a national holiday that was to be celebrated on 10 Sunday of May each year. Now many countries of the world celebrate their own Mother's Day at different times throughout the year.
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