Hello again, friend.

Welcome back to part 2 of my Chilling Mother's Day Collaboration Special.

Before we embark on our journey again, I want to take a moment to reflect on the origins

of this holiday.

To truly understand the history of Mother's Day, we must go back thousands of years to

the ancient world.

The earliest known celebrations of mothers and motherhood can be traced back to the annual

Spring Festival in ancient Greece, honoring Rhea, the Mother of Gods.

But it wasn't just the Greeks, the Romans also had a festival called Matronalia, where

husbands and children would shower their wives and mothers with gifts and flowers.

This tradition carried on for centuries in various forms, eventually influencing a Christian

holiday known as Mothering Sunday.

Mothering Sunday was celebrated in Europe, particularly in the United Kingdom, on the

fourth Sunday of Lent.

This was a time when people would return to their mother church, the church where they

were baptized and grew up attending.

This would reunite, and children would often bring gifts, such as flowers or small tokens

for their mothers.

But what about modern Mother's Day?

For that we must turn to the early 20th century, in the efforts of a woman named Anna Jarvis.

Anna Jarvis was the daughter of Anne Reeves Jarvis, a social activist and community organizer

who worked hard to improve the lives of women and families.

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