Flowers for the special Days

The tradition of Valentine's Day dates back to the feast of Saint Valentine, a martyr. According to legend, during his imprisonment he healed the blind daughter of his overseer and wrote her a farewell letter signed "Your Valentine" before his execution.
The feast of Saint Valentine was first associated with romantic love in the 14th century. In 18th-century England, it developed into an occasion when lovers expressed their love for one another by giving each other flowers and sweets and sending greeting cards. The celebrations, traditions and customs of Valentine's Day developed in England from early modern times. In the 19th century, they spread throughout the English-speaking world, including to the United States through emigrants. Since the late 20th and early 21st century also to East Asia.

At the turn of the 19th to the 20th century, women were exploited twice: on the one hand in factory work under inhumane conditions and on the other hand with regard to unacceptable living conditions with catastrophic living conditions. Central themes of dedicated women included better working conditions, equal pay for work of equal value, reduced working hours without a cut in wages, setting minimum wages, maternity protection and abortion.

• In 1909, the first national women's day was observed in the United States.
• In 1910, on the occasion of the Second International Socialist Women's Conference in Copenhagen, it was decided to introduce an annual International Women's Day to mobilize for women's interests against multiple exploitation and oppression. Central concerns were equal rights for women and the right to vote.
• On March 19, 1911, on Women's Day, women and men demonstrated on the streets in Europe for the first time to draw attention to their demands: the right to work, access to public offices, vocational training, and the end of discrimination in the workplace. A major goal was the introduction of the right to vote.
• In 1921, International Women's Day was first celebrated on March 8th. The date commemorates the textile workers' uprising in New York in 1857, in which 129 workers lost their lives, and the 1917 textile workers' strike in St. Petersburg.
• Under Nazi ideology, Women's Day was banned and Mother's Day was introduced in its place to emphasize the role of women as wives and mothers.
• Only in the 1960s was International Women's Day revived by the women's movement. March 8th evolved into a day of women's solidarity between women of all walks of life and political persuasions to draw attention to women's concerns.

Even before Christianization, Easter was celebrated to celebrate the beginning of spring and the rebirth of nature. In many countries there are still pagan traditions and customs such as looking for Easter eggs and eating Easter bunnies.
Even for non-Christians, Easter is a symbol of rebirth and renewal. Easter is the most important festival of the year for Christians.
On this holiday they commemorate that Jesus rose again after he died on the cross.
This event is described in the four gospels of the Bible and symbolizes mankind's redemption from sin and death and the hope of eternal life. Attending a service at Easter is a tradition for many. Holy Week - which begins Palm Sunday and ends Holy Saturday - serves as a time for Christians to reflect and reflect on the passion story of Jesus.

It all started about 250 years before Christ. There were Roman and Greek goddesses for whom a kind of Mother's Day festival was held.
In England, at the time of Henry III (1216-1239), Mother Church was the focus of Mothering Day celebrations. About 200 years later, in medieval England, Mothering Day was established around 1644: "Every Mid-Lent Sunday is a great day at Worcester, when all the children an grantchildren meet at the head and chief of the family and have a feast" ( "Every Fasting Sunday is a day of honor in Worcester when all the children and grandchildren gather with the head of the family and celebrate a feast").
On this Sunday (Lätare) all the children visited their mothers (go a-mothering), brought small gifts and the home-made mothering cake (or simnel cake). After the successful pioneering work of Anna Jarvis, Mother's Day also caught on in mainland Europe after the First World War.
Mother's Day has existed in Switzerland since 1917, after which it was introduced in Austria and Scandinavia.

Even though the Lenten season of Advent has largely lost its meaning, it has never lost its principal penitential character for active Christians. In this respect, Advent is a time of special devotion and contemplation. However, the liturgy during Advent no longer primarily consists of traditions, ceremonies and rites of penance.
The focus today is more on anticipation with lights and chants. The theme of modern Advent is therefore less atonement and doing penance, but rather the joyful Christmas symbol of God's incarnation through the holy birth of Jesus Christ. Above all, evangelical Christians focus more on the festive and contemplative preparation of the Christmas season.
And the Christmas tree, Christmas decorations, Christmas markets and many other customs are always fun and enjoyable to celebrate. The originally contemplative character of the Advent season has been preserved to this day. Conversations and songs of reflection, repentance and charity are very common at events on Advent Sunday. This doesn't just happen in church or on a cold Sunday in December. Since the end of the fasting rule, opulent and colorful preparations for giving and celebrating are actually increasing from year to year. Advent and Christmas are still growing!

In modern times, Christmas and its history are celebrated with particular enthusiasm in the western countries of the Christian faith, especially in Europe, North, Central and South America and in Australia and New Zealand. But also in other more modern Western and Eastern countries such as Japan or China, Christmas or some elements of it now have global celebration status. The festival in honor of Christ's birth has long been secularized to such an extent that it goes beyond a purely Christian festival and the church.
The connecting, the enclosing and the common have become independent. Today, many people celebrate Christmas above and beyond its narrow theological and religious significance as a celebration of family, love and contemplation. Reading a good book, having a good conversation, finding time for each other - that's what counts. Apparently those fruits of Christ's teaching are so fruitful that they are also very attractive to non-practicing Christians and even people of other faiths.
Christmas is definitely celebrated with family and friends – with them and for them. Many people also rediscover their charity at Christmas. At no other time are more people committed to helping those in need than at Christmas.