 History
Attempts
have been made to link
Mother's
Day to ancient cults of the
mother
goddess, especially the worship of Cybele,the association is more conceptual
than historic.
MOTHER'S
DAY is a modern, American Invention. It's creator was Ana M. Jarvis (1864-1948),
a West Virginia schoolteacher whose lifelong devotion to her
own mother
was augmented by what she saw as the ill treatment of many elders by their
children. When her mother died in 1905, Javis undertook a letter
writing campaign, petitioning ministers, businessmen, and congressmen to
support a national day set aside to honor ones mother. Three years
later, her persistence paid off. Churches in her hometown of Grafton
and Philadelphia, where she then lived, held observances on May 10.
In 1910
West Virginia became the first state to adopt it as a national holiday
& within a year the rest of the union followed. In 1914 President Woodrow
Wilson established the second Sunday in May as the date.
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