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Monumento a la Madre(Alzira)

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Located in the garden between Avenida Sants Patrons and Calle Sucro is the monument to the mother, the work of the sculptor José Gonzalvo Vives, which was inaugurated on 6 May 2006.
This figure was donated to the city by Enrique Amat and Marisa Caro.
Mother's Day is one of the most special festivities we have in our calendar, and with the arrival of the month of May, thousands of homes take the opportunity to pay homage to all the mothers of the world. This festivity does not have a fixed day.
The origin of this festivity goes back much further than we can imagine. It was in Ancient Egypt, in 2,100 BC, where they began to worship the goddess Isis as 'the great mother goddess', although it was not until Ancient Greece that they began to worship Rhea, mother of Olympus.
This tradition was also adopted by the Romans, who went on to worship the goddess Cybele, the Mother goddess, for three days a year, to whom they brought flowers.
This date has not always been the one on which Mother's Day was celebrated, since in 1854, Pope Pius IX decided to establish December 8 as the day of homage to the Virgin Mary, defining it as the well-known day of the Immaculate Conception and also as Mother's Day. The United States decided to move its tradition to the month of May by choosing the second Sunday of this month.
The activist Julia Ward Home was one of the initiators of this day after a demonstration in Boston at the end of the 19th century in which she brought together all the mothers of families who were victims of the Civil War. As early as 1914, President Wilson Woodrow announced Mother's Day as an official celebration on the second Sunday in May, the date on which the mother of another of its promoters, Anna Reves Jarvis, died, and to whom he paid tribute every second Sunday in May.
In Spain, it took a little longer to change the date of Mother's Day as we know it today, as it was not until 1965 that it was decided to move it to the first Sunday in May. The reason for this change of date was none other than to separate festivities: on the one hand the day of the Immaculate Conception and on the other Mother's Day.
The fact that it is celebrated on the first Sunday in May also has its explanation, as May is the month related to feminine divinities in the classical world, and the month dedicated to the Virgin Mary in the Christian religion. Furthermore, it is also the month of maximum splendour of spring and when the countryside bursts into bloom, which is why flowers are usually given as gifts on this festivity.

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