Today March 19, St. Joseph's Day, the Father's Day in Spain and also in other countries such as Belgium, Bolivia, Honduras, Italy, Portugal, Croatia, Switzerland, Andorra, Morocco and Mozambique. This day, Google wanted to honor the parents with a nice doodle.
Surely many parents who look at the search engine today will find this surprise. There are six different sized dinosaur-shaped hands in the company's colors. But, What is the origin of Father's Day? Why is St. Joseph's Day celebrated in Spain?
Origin of Father's Day
The worldwide celebration originated in 1910 in the United States, when Sonora Smart Dodd, daughter of a veteran of the American civil war, decided to pay tribute to her father, who had to take care of only her six children after his wife died.
Years later, 1966 President Lyndon Johnson declared the third Sunday in June like Father’s Day in the United States. From there, it is celebrated on that date both in that country and in many other countries.
Why is St. Joseph's Day celebrated in Spain?
There are different theories about the origin of the celebration in Spain, which has chosen San José Day, as the European Catholic tradition marks.
It is believed that it was about The 1950s when this date began to be celebrated with the idea of equating it with the celebration of Mother's Day that was celebrated on December 8, on the occasion of the feast of the Immaculate Conception.
One of the theories about the origin of the celebration dates back to 1948, when Manuela Vicente Ferrero, a teacher from the Vallecas neighborhood of Madrid, proposed that a day be created to honor parents. Apparently, the claim would have come from some parents of his school to see that their children made crafts at school for mothers but not for parents.
The teacher wrote an article in The Spanish magisterium encouraging other schools to celebrate Father's Day and the idea was extended to reach the owner of the Precious Galleries, who was responsible for promoting this day to boost the purchase of gifts. The English Court also added to the idea.
Since then, the date settled and continued to be celebrated until today.
