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The celebration of Mother's Day is different around the world, spread throughout several months of the year. In Portugal, Mother's Day is celebrated on the first Sunday of May, but for a long time the date was celebrated on December 8th, the day of the Immaculate Conception.
The story begins in the 1950s, when the Portuguese Feminine Youth decided to institute Mother's Day in Portugal, setting it to December 8th. The commercial use of the date would lead, in the 70s, the Portuguese Episcopal Conference to ask the Portuguese Feminine Youth to move Mother's Day to a different date, in order to allow for December 8th to be exclusively linked to Our Lady, patron saint of Portugal. The request was accepted and Mother's Day was, at first, scheduled on the last Sunday in May, since, in Catholic tradition, May is the month of Mary, mother of Jesus. But this would not be the last change. As the celebration of the Pentecost or the Ascension is frequently held on the last Sunday of May, it was requested that Mother's Day be fixed on the first Sunday of May, on which day, according to the liturgical calendar, no particularly important feast takes place. And so it has thus remained until today.

 

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