Re: Timey's Calendarium
Today is the ancient Roman festival of Matronalia. The derivation of the word is from the Latin for "Mother" but it was a festival for women in general. The men had to carry out tasks for the women (it was the other way round at Saturnalia, which was in December). 1st March was the first day of the year before Julius Caesar's reforms in 46 BCE.
I think this is the forerunner of what is now Mother's Day, although I can find nothing to confirm this. This year, Mother's Day is almost the earliest it can ever be (March 1st is the earliest). It is a movable date as it always falls three weeks before Easter Sunday, which is very early this year. I will be posting about that in a later post.
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