The June observance of Father's Day marks the birth month of the father of the founder of the holiday. The first Father's Day was celebrated on June 19, 1910. The holiday was later moved to the third Sunday in June. Was invented by a daughter that was raised by her father
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A customary day for the celebration of fatherhood in
Catholic Europe is known to date back to at least 1508. It is usually celebrated on 19 March, as the feast day of
Saint Joseph, who is referred to as the fatherly
Nutritor Domini("Nourisher of the Lord") in Catholicism and "the putative father of
Jesus" in southern European tradition. This celebration was brought to the
Americas by the Spanish and Portuguese. The
Catholic Church actively supported the custom of a celebration of fatherhood on
St. Joseph's Day from either the last years of the 14th century or from the early 15th century,
[5] apparently on the initiative of the
Franciscans.
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Whether to celebrate this day worldwide or not remained a debatable topic. In 1908,
Grace Golden Claytonproposed the day to honor those men who had died in a mining accident in the US. Though it was not accepted then, in 1909
Sonora Smart Dodd, who along with her five brothers was raised by her father alone, after attending
Mother's Day in a church, convinced the Spokane Ministerial Association to celebrate Father's Day worldwide.
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