Mother’s Day

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Mother’s Day in Denmark in 2023 — Image by Alexas Fotos , from Pixabay. CC0

About Mother’s Day

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Dates of Mother’s Day
2024 Denmark Sunday, May 12thMother’s Day 2023 Denmark Sunday, May 14thMother’s Day 2022 Denmark Sunday, May 8thMother’s Day 2021 Denmark Sunday, May 9thMother’s Day 2020 Denmark Sunday, May 10thMother’s Day
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Find out the dates, history and traditions of Mother’s Day
Local name
Mors dag
Mother’s Day in other countries
Mother’s Day internationally

About Mother's Day

Mother's Day is celebrated across the world, in more than 50 countries, though not all countries celebrate it on the same day.

Countries that celebrate Mother's Day on the second Sunday of May include Australia, Denmark, Finland, Italy, Switzerland, Turkey and Belgium. In Mexico and many parts of Latin America, Mother's Day is celebrated on May 10th of each year. In Thailand, it is celebrated on August 12th, the birthday of the current Queen.

Mother's Day around the world

Early History

Arguably, the tradition of a day to celebrate mothers can be traced back to the times of the ancient Greeks, who held festivities to honour Rhea, the mother of the gods.

Early Christians celebrated the fourth Sunday of Lent as a Mother's festival to honour Mary, the mother of Christ.

In the UK, the tradition of Mother's Day is now very similar to its American counterpart, but its origins are different, as the day commemorates returning to your mother church on the fourth Sunday in Lent.

The English colonists who settled in America discontinued the tradition of Mothering Sunday, as presumably, it would have been a bit of a trip to return to their mother church for the day.