The origins of Mother's Day, like other holidays, not related to the Catholic liturgy (eg Valentine's Day), are quite controversial. Most say that it is a party that has an ancient history dating back to the time of the polytheistic religions, which corresponded to the day of the festival of fertility.
Officially, however, Mother's Day was established in 1914 in the United States at the suggestion of Anna M. Jarvis, a pacifist very attached to their mother, a teacher of the Andrews Methodist Church Grafton, deceased recently.
The Jarvis undertook to be established so that a day to remember and celebrate her mother, while still alive. In 1914, President Wilson announced the decision of the Congress that authorized her to celebrate Mother's Day as an expression of love and gratitude for the most important woman in everyone's life, the one who put us in the world.
Mother's Day was later adopted in many countries around the world, though not on the same day. In Italy incece, Mother's Day is celebrated on the second Sunday in May as the United States.
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