While both the Greeks and Romans held festivals that celebrated their motherly goddesses, Rhea and Cybele, it is the Christian festival“Mothering Sunday” that's
more of a precedent to what we celebrate today.
Wine also played a central role in the secret rites of Greek mystery cults such as the Dionysian Mysteries and
the Cult of Cybele, which aimed above all at ecstatic union with the divine-
an idea that has survived to this day in the sacramental blood of Christ.