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Fourth Sunday in Lent or something, very easy to forget it!


Yes, it pre-dates the gift card (and gift) industry. I seem to recall being told it was to allow servants to go home to see their mothers. See how vaguely I framed that.


Nothing to do with mothers, wasn't it something to do with visiting your "mother church", the church where you were baptised?




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