母亲节,有历史学家声称最早是古希腊人庆祝莉雅女神的节日(莉雅是宙斯的母亲)。十七世纪的英国,教会把庆祝莉雅女神的节日吸收过来,改为表达对圣母玛利亚的崇敬之情,遂定四旬斋的第四个星期日为“Mothering Sunday”。1876年,安娜·查维斯夫人在教堂讲授美国国殇纪念日的课程,讲完战役中捐躯的英雄的故事后,她祈祷:“但愿在某处某时,会有人创立一个母 On Mother’s Day, historians claim that the earliest ancient Greek celebration of the Liga goddess (Liya Zeus’s mother). In the 17th century England, the church absorbed the festival celebrating the Liya goddess instead of expressing its respect for the Virgin Mary, and set the fourth Sunday of the Lenten to be ”Mothering Sunday.“ In 1876, Mrs. Anna Chavez teaches the National Day commemorative lesson in the church and after completing the story of the hero who sacrificed her life in the battle, she prayed: ”I hope somewhere someone will create a mother