Mothering Sunday, or Mother's Day, is held every fourth Sunday of Lent (Lent is the period from Ash Wednesday until Good Friday). It is exactly three weeks before Easter Sunday.
Mothering Sunday is not a bank holiday in the United Kingdom. However people usually treat their mothers to a special meal and prepare a Simnel cake to eat together on this day. A Simnel cake is a light fruit cake covered with a layer of marzipan and decorated with 11 or 12 balls of marzipan, representing the 11 disciples and, sometimes, Jesus Christ. One legend says that the cake was named after Lambert Simnel, who worked in the kitchens of Henry VII of England around the year 1500.
Mothering Sunday was originally a time when people returned to the church, in which they were baptized or where they attended services when they were children. This meant that families were reunited as adults returned to the towns and villages where they grew up. In time, it became customary for young people who were working as servants in large houses, to be given a holiday on Mothering Sunday.
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