Father's Day is celebrated around the world to honor the bond between fathers and their children. It’s a day for bed cards, gifts and breakfast. Roman Catholic countries, including Spain, Portugal, and Italy, observe Father's Day on 19 March.
Husband of the Virgin Mary and legal father of Jesus Christ - this coincides with the episode of St. Joseph. Both the United Kingdom and the United States celebrate Father's Day on the third Sunday in June and there is a special reason for this. Father's Day was founded in 1910 by Sonora Smart Dodd, a young American woman. Sonora's mother sadly gave birth to six children, leaving her husband, William, to die. As the eldest daughter, Sonora helped her father take care of her younger siblings and the family had a close and loving relationship.
In 1909, 27-year-old Sonora attended a church service in Spokane, Washington, with her father. The sermon was related to Mother's Day, which was just founded by a woman in West Virginia. Sonora was inspired, and - the thought of her own upbringing - should have had a day to honor her fatherhood. He made the suggestion to the local Spoken cabinet coalition, proposing his father’s own birthday - June 5 - to celebrate the first Father’s Day. Due to delays in planning, the first Father’s Day was indeed held on Sunday, June 19, three weeks after William’s birthday. It became an annual tradition for the third Sunday in June, and the idea slowly but surely spread - first in the United States and then around the world. It is believed that Father's Day came to the UK during World War II.
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