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This message is dedicated to two of the finest Christian mothers ever, Gene Elizabeth McCullough-Burkey and Marie S. Slaton-Johnson
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Category: TDTMT & Holiday
Mother's Day History TDTMT  #346
© May 6, 2006 Joe Burkey, OK to forward intact
also Iyyar 8, 5766 original calendar

No, Mother’s Day was not started by the Hallmark greeting card company. Here is the complete story, not just the legal one, written as concisely as possible. Once again, you will be surprised at the whole story and, once again, you will think “They Didn’t Tell Me That.”
 
The earliest known “mothers day” was an annual Spring festival by the Greeks to honor Rhea who they thought was the mother god of several other gods. The Romans later substituted Cybele, their own mother of other gods. Christians decided to celebrate this Spring festival always on the fourth Sonday of Lent to honor a real mother, Mary, who was the mother of Jesus, the Christ.
 
The English renamed it “Mothering Sunday” and expanded the holiday to include all mothers. Julia Ward Howe, who wrote the song “Battle Hymn of the Republic,“ is given credit for organizing the first mothers day in the United States in 1892. This is not correct. She organized a peace day (a good cause) which she dedicated to mothers. These meetings only in Boston continued, but were not about mothers.
 
The United States officially began Mother’s Day in May of 1914 to be on the second Sonday of May and to be called “Mother’s Day” and to be about all mothers. So how did we move from a day about imaginary mothers of imaginary gods, Mary the mother of Jesus, and a peace day, to a mother’s day for all mothers?
 
Anna Marie Reeves Jarvis organized a day she called “Mother’s Work Day” to honor the hard work of mothers all day and evening and often during the night. She pitied the poor health of mothers. Anna’s body died in 1905 and her daughter, also named Anna, promoted a mother’s day as a memorial to her mom and all other mothers.
 
The first mother’s day actually named “Mother’s Day” was May 10, 1908 and began in Andrews Methodist Episcopal Church in Grafton, West Virginia. Printed programs and a telegram announcement about the memorial service clearly define the purpose. I am crying again already and you will also when you read her words in the next message about the real beginning of “Mother’s Day” as we know it now.

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Thanks, Joe (Joe Burkey, McCullough 4-4-1)
 
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