HONORING MOTHER ON SPECIAL DAY GOES BACK MANY CENTURIES
Honoring mother at least once
a year with a special day goes
back many centuries.
The Greeks started it with an
annual tribute to Cybele, mother
of the gods, held on the Ides of
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March. The custom was later in
troduced to Rome about 250 B.C.
Mothers in Medieval Europe were
honored on the fourth Sunday be
fore Easter. Sixteenth Century Eng
land changed this Sunday to “Moth- !
ering Sunday,” a day when children
went to see their mothers, taking
along trinkets and cakes.
The pages of history contain many
tributes and memorials to mother
hood—which proves that “the hand
that rocks the cradle is the hand
that rules the world.”
When Abranam Lincoln became
President, he said of his mother:
“All I am or ever hope to be I owe
to my angel mother." His mother's
last words to him were: “Be some
thing. Abe.”
Another great American, George
Washington, was also influenced by
his mother. Seeing the tears in his
mother's eyes as he was about to
leave on a British Man-of-War as a
midshipman, Washington said:
“Mother I cannot go and cause you
so much grief.”
Probably the greatest tribute in
literature paid to motherhood was
by Joaquin Miller in his poem.. "The
Bravest Battle":
The bravest battle that ever was
fought
Shall I tell you where and when?
On the maps of the world you will
find it not:
It was fought by the mothers of
men.
Memorials to Motherhood
Man-made memorials to mother
hood can be found in all corners of
the world. The Taj Mahal of India,
for example, is a monument to a
mother. Shah Jehan built it in
memory of Mumtz Mahal, his favor
ite wife.
The famous American statue “The
Pioneer Woman,” honors the variant
mothers who carried civilization to
the West.
The most important tribute to
mother in modern times occurred
in 1914 when President Wilson
signed a Congressional Resolution
making the second Sunday in May
a national holiday :;dedicated to
the memory of the best mother in
the world, your mother.”
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