Αυτά μου τα μαθαίνει το Γκουγκλ. Το ανοίγεις για την αναζήτησή σου, βλέπεις κάποιο περίεργο σκιτσάκι, το πατάς και ενημερώνεσαι. Ο πολύς ο κόσμος έχει τη Γιορτή της Μητέρας (Mother's Day), τη δεύτερη Κυριακή του Μάη. Οι Βρετανοί έχουν τη Mothering Day, που είναι την τέταρτη Κυριακή της Σαρακοστής, που πρέπει να ξέρεις από Σαρακοστή για να θυμηθείς να πεις χρόνια πολλά στη μητέρα σου, εκτός αν χρησιμοποιείς το Γκουγκλ.
Κυριακή είναι και οι δύο γιορτές της μητέρας, αλλά επειδή αυτή το λέει και στον τίτλο της, βλέπω ότι αποδίδεται «Κυριακή της Μητέρας», η οποία στο εξής θα ξέρω ότι είναι η γιορτή της μητέρας που πέφτει πριν από το Πάσχα και τη γιορτάζουν στην Αγγλία.
In the United Kingdom and Ireland, there is a celebration called Mothering Sunday, which falls on the fourth Sunday of Lent (18 March in 2012). Most historians believe that it originated from the 16th century Christian practice of visiting one's mother church annually on Laetere Sunday, which meant that most mothers would be reunited with their children on this day when young apprentices and young women in service were released by their masters that weekend. As a result of commercialization and secularization, it was then principally used to show appreciation to one's mother, although it is still recognized in the historical sense by some churches, with attention paid to Mary the mother of Jesus Christ as well as the traditional concept 'Mother Church'.
By 1935 Mothering Sunday was less celebrated in Europe. There were efforts to revive the festival in the 1910s–1920s by Constance Penswick-Smith, but it was not revived until US World War II soldiers brought the Mother's Day celebrations to the UK,and it was merged with the Mothering Sunday traditions still celebrated in the Church of England. By the 1950s it had become popular in the whole of the UK, thanks to the efforts of UK merchants, who saw in the festival a great commercial opportunity. People from Ireland and UK started celebrating Mother's Day on the fourth Sunday of Lent, the same day on which Mothering Sunday had been celebrated for centuries. Some Mothering Sunday traditions were revived, such as the tradition of eating cake on that day, although they now eat simnel cake instead of the cakes that were traditionally prepared at that time. The traditions of the two celebrations have now been mixed up, and many people think that they are the same thing.
Mothering Sunday can fall at the earliest on 1 March (in years when Easter Day falls on 22 March) and at the latest on 4 April (when Easter Day falls on 25 April).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mother's_Day#United_Kingdom_and_Ireland
Κυριακή είναι και οι δύο γιορτές της μητέρας, αλλά επειδή αυτή το λέει και στον τίτλο της, βλέπω ότι αποδίδεται «Κυριακή της Μητέρας», η οποία στο εξής θα ξέρω ότι είναι η γιορτή της μητέρας που πέφτει πριν από το Πάσχα και τη γιορτάζουν στην Αγγλία.
In the United Kingdom and Ireland, there is a celebration called Mothering Sunday, which falls on the fourth Sunday of Lent (18 March in 2012). Most historians believe that it originated from the 16th century Christian practice of visiting one's mother church annually on Laetere Sunday, which meant that most mothers would be reunited with their children on this day when young apprentices and young women in service were released by their masters that weekend. As a result of commercialization and secularization, it was then principally used to show appreciation to one's mother, although it is still recognized in the historical sense by some churches, with attention paid to Mary the mother of Jesus Christ as well as the traditional concept 'Mother Church'.
By 1935 Mothering Sunday was less celebrated in Europe. There were efforts to revive the festival in the 1910s–1920s by Constance Penswick-Smith, but it was not revived until US World War II soldiers brought the Mother's Day celebrations to the UK,and it was merged with the Mothering Sunday traditions still celebrated in the Church of England. By the 1950s it had become popular in the whole of the UK, thanks to the efforts of UK merchants, who saw in the festival a great commercial opportunity. People from Ireland and UK started celebrating Mother's Day on the fourth Sunday of Lent, the same day on which Mothering Sunday had been celebrated for centuries. Some Mothering Sunday traditions were revived, such as the tradition of eating cake on that day, although they now eat simnel cake instead of the cakes that were traditionally prepared at that time. The traditions of the two celebrations have now been mixed up, and many people think that they are the same thing.
Mothering Sunday can fall at the earliest on 1 March (in years when Easter Day falls on 22 March) and at the latest on 4 April (when Easter Day falls on 25 April).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mother's_Day#United_Kingdom_and_Ireland