Mother's Day celebration is already a tradition in all parts of the world. Although, some countries celebrated it on different dates, but still, it's a Mother's day celebration. But when and how it established? Who is the first person to proclaim Mother's day?
The first person to proclaim Mother’s Day in 1870 was Julia Ward Howe. But today’s modern Mother's Day celebration was established by a woman, named Ann Marie Jarvis and with the help of John Wanamake, a Philadelphian Merchant. It was after the death of Marie's mother, Ann Jarvis on May 9, 1905. A small service happened in the Andrews Methodist Episcopal Church in Grafton, West Virginia on May 12, 1907. But the first official service was on May 10, 1908 on the same church but it has accompanied now by a larger ceremony in the Wanamaker Auditorium on Philadelphia. On that the same date, Ann Marie Jarvis made a campaign to make “mother’s Day” a recognized holiday in U.S. On 1914, she succeeded in making this nationally recognize. To commemorate her accomplishment, the International Mother’s Day Shrine was established.
Mother’s day is a very special day to our ever supporting and caring mother. They took care of us for nine months inside their wombs and they didn’t even forget on giving us the essential necessities we needed like nutrients and vitamins. And when we grow up, we forgot those hardships they experienced instead of saying thank you or love you to them; some of our teenagers became so rebellious and thought that they are just a nuisance. Hey! Wake up Guys! You don’t know how hard to take care a baby inside a womb. How hard to make you stop crying when you’re in pain. How painful watching you having a cold or even when you’re sick. You must be glad that your mother is still alive unlike others where their mothers are already in heaven.
Give your Mother now a very big hug and show to her that you acknowledge her sacrifices and hardships in helping to make what you are today and why you are now on the bed of roses.
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