For Peruvians, the arrival of May means that Mother’s Day will be celebrated, without a doubt one of the most anticipated festivities by all to honor the sacrifice and dedication of the parents.
Like most festivities, Mother’s Day can be confused as a celebration aimed only at excessive consumption, but we must not forget that Rhea, mother of gods such as Poseidon, Hades and Zeus, was already honored in distant ancient Greece. , which would be the most distant antecedent of the beginning of this festivity.
The origin of Mother’s Day
Ancient Greece can be understood as the beginning of celebrating the importance of mothers, but Mother’s Day as we know it had its closest origin in 1873, in the United States, when several women from 18 cities came together to celebrate Your day.
However, this celebration was not institutionalized until the efforts of the American Anna Jarvis bore fruit to honor the memory of her mother, every second Sunday in May.
Why is Mother’s Day celebrated on the second Sunday in May?
As explained above, it was the activist Anna Jarvis who fought for the Mother’s Day It was an institutional date in the United States. Her mother, Ann Reeves Jarvis, died on May 9, 1905 and her daughter, in order to honor her, began a celebration since 1907 and at the same time began sending letters to governors of all states to honor mothers usually.
The date you chose? The second Sunday in May, the closest date to the day his mother died. It was not until 1914 that then President Woodrow Wilson signed a bill to recognize the Mother’s Day as a national holiday.
In the case of Peru, it was during the government of Augusto B. Leguía that he promulgated -in April 1924- that Mother’s Day be celebrated every second Sunday in May.
What is the real Mother’s Day?
The real Mother’s Day It is the one in which mothers are consciously honored, far from excessive consumerism and closer to a date for reflection. Regarding why it is celebrated on different days in the world, each country has special reasons to celebrate on certain dates, they only coincide in the intention to honor mothers as one of the most important axes of society.
For example, him Mother’s Day in Bolivia It is celebrated on May 27, in commemoration of the Heroines of the Coronilla who faced the royalist army during the Bolivian War of Independence in 1812.
In Colombia, Mother’s Day It has been celebrated on the second Sunday of May since 1925 after being decreed by President Pedro Nel Ospina.
In Chile, Mother’s Day has “two dates”. Through a decree it was established that it be celebrated on May 10, however, as it does not always fall on the weekend and for commercial reasons it is celebrated on the second Sunday of that month.
When is Mother’s Day celebrated around the world?
- Second Sunday in February: Norway.
- Fourth Sunday of Lent: Ireland, United Kingdom, Nigeria.
- March 3rd: Georgia.
- March 8 (Women’s Day): Albania, Romania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, North Macedonia, Montenegro, Serbia, Bulgaria, Uzbekistan, and Tajikistan.
- March 21st: Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, Egypt, Lebanon, Morocco, Syria.
- April 7: Armenia
- First Sunday of May: Andorra, Angola, Spain, Hungary, Lithuania, Portugal, South Africa.
- May 8: South Korea.
- May 10: Mexico, Guatemala, El Salvador.
- Second Sunday of May: Germany, Australia, Austria, Bangladesh, Brazil, Belgium, Chile, China, Canada, Colombia (except Norte de Santander), South Korea, Croatia, Cuba, Denmark, Ecuador, United States, Estonia, Philippines, Finland, Greece, Netherlands, Honduras, Italy, Japan, Latvia, Liechtenstein, New Zealand, Peru, Puerto Rico, Czech Republic, Switzerland, Taiwan, Turkey, Ukraine, Uruguay, Venezuela.
- May 12: Samoa.
- 15 th of May: Paraguay.
- may 17th: Belize, Qatar, El Salvador, United Arab Emirates, India, Oman, Pakistan, Singapore.
- May 26: Poland.
- may 27th: Bolivia.
- Last Sunday of May: Norte de Santander (Colombia), France, Algeria, Haiti, Dominican Republic, Sweden, Tunisia.
- August 12th: Thailand.
- August 15th: Antwerp and Costa Rica.
- October 14th: Belarus.
- Third Sunday in October: Argentina.
- Nov. 16: North Korea.
- Last Sunday of November: Russia.
- December 8: Panama.
- December 22th: Indonesia.