He Mother’s Day is one of the dates marked in red on calendar every year. This day dedicated to mothers changes the date every year, unlike what happened on that day Father’s day associated with saints (March 19, San José). In the Spanish Mother’s Day celebrated on first week in mayHowever, although there is only one mother, in the world there are twenty dates to honor parents.

So that Mother’s Day 2023 in Spain it is celebrated Sunday May 7th. There are few days left to decide what details to give to mothers and thank them for everything they do for their children.

Origin of Mother’s Day

The fact of celebrating Mother’s Day on the first Sunday in May may be consolidated in the collective Spanish imagination, but it is only 58 years.

He Catholicism in Europe start respecting virgin marythe mother of Jesus of Nazareth, that is December 8, 1854when dad Pius IX stated dogma of Immaculate Conception of the Virgin Mary.

Every December 8th Feast of the Immaculate Conception of Mary It serves to commemorate all parents. The custom was maintained until the 1960s, when Valuable Gallery It adopted the custom of celebrating Mother’s Day in May, in the image and likeness of other nations. Its competitor, El Corte Inglés, kept December 8, so for some time Mother’s Day is celebrated in Spain, commercially, twice a year.

In the 1965 Mother’s Day is set definitively first week in mayA month associated with the Virgin Marythereby joining the ecclesiastical authorities.

Mother’s Day in other countries

Actually only a few countries besides Spain have the date: Portugal, South Africa, Hungary, Lithuania, Angola, and Andorra. And world Mother’s Day is distributed on different calendar pages by country:

• Second Sunday in February: Norwegian.
• Fourth Sunday of Lent: United Kingdom, Ireland and Nigeria.
• March 3: Georgia.
• March 8: Albania, Romania, Bulgaria, Bosnia and Herzegovina…
• March 21st: Morocco, Syria, Egypt, Saudi Arabia…
• April 7th: Armenian.
• May 10th: Mexico, Ecuador and El Salvador.
• Second Sunday of May: Germany, USA, Cuba, Chile, Denmark, Turkey…
• May 8th: South Korea.
• May 12th: Samoa.
• May 15th: Paraguay.
• May 17th: Belize, Singapore, UAE…
• May 26th: Poland.
• May 27th: Bolivia.
• May 30th: Nicaragua.
• Last Sunday of May: France, Algeria, Sweden…
• August 12th: Thailand.
• August 15th: Costa Rica, Belgium.
• Third Sunday of October: Argentina.
• October 14th: Belarus.
• November 16th: North Korea.
• Last week of November: Russia.
• December 8th: Panama.
• December 22: Indonesian.