Even Google, with one of its doodles that replace the classic icon, celebrates Mother's Day with an animated image that alternates the hands of mothers and the hands of children in various activities together.
Mother's Day is celebrated in Italy, as well as in some other countries, on the second Sunday of May.
The origins of Mother's Day are to be found in the United States.
In May 1870, Julia Ward Howe, a pacifist activist, proposed the establishment of Mother's Day for Peace as a day of reflection against the war, but the initiative was not very successful.
The modern day Mother's Day is however due to Anna Jarvis and was celebrated for the first time in 1908, in the form of a memorial in honor of her mother, a peace activist.
The celebration became very popular and was made official by President Woodrow Wilson in 1914, when Congress resolved to celebrate it on the second Sunday in May.