The Cathedral Church of St Mary the Virgin, St Peter and St Cedd is the mother church of the Anglican Diocese of Chelmsford.
Mother's Day marks the halfway point of Lent, and one theory of its origin is that it was marked by visiting the region's "mother church" or cathedral.
That would provide the traditionalist alliance - with its ruling council of overseas archbishops - with a boost to its standing and influence in the "mother" Church of England it could barely have imagined a week ago.
On Saturdays and Sundays, Glasper's mother performed in church.
Glasper and his mother were also active in music at their church his mother sang and played piano, and by age 12, her son had assumed some of the piano duties.
Young George learned to play guitar at his mother's Pentecostal church and listened to Lefty Frizzell, Hank Williams and the Grand Ole Opry on the radio.
Even the Mother of Sao Salvador church next to the castle, where da Gama was ordained into the Order of Santiago when he was 11 or 12, has been entirely rebuilt.
Catholics revere Mary, the mother of Jesus, and church history is replete with female saints who struggled and died for the faith.
She was buried next to her mother at St John's Church, Ashington, on Friday.
Back in the Kolar Gold Fields, the employees pray for their future at the local church dedicated to the Mother of Mines.
Kyle's mother Tanya Cooper read a tribute in church, in which she addressed the boy who threw the ball that hit her son.
Gray attended church services there with his mother, and they would have routinely walked by his aunt's final resting place, in an activity that may have provided Gray with the determination to finish his poem.
Palin's mother, Sally, took the family to church, and her father, Chuck, instilled in her a love for sports and competition.
The police have beaten, maimed and killed their victims, which include children, a pregnant mother, a 65-year-old church deacon and an 87-year-old grandmother -- mostly African-American.
Both his mother and sister were married at Pilgrim Baptist Church.
"This is the most important day for her and I, that we do it in front of God and our family, our church family, " says new mother Stephanie Jones.
He was buried--as were his father, mother, and wife--at First Parish Church in Quincy.
Watson was steeped in music as a child, from the time his mother held him in her arms at the Mount Paton Church and he listened to the harmony and shape-note singing of such songs as "The Lone Pilgrim" and "There is a Fountain, " according to a 1998 article in Flatpicking Guitar Magazine by Dan Miller.
Compton, a married mother of two young boys, is in complete disagreement with her church's involvement in the push to get Proposition 8 passed.
Scott and I had been best friends as boys in Falls Church, Virginia, and my mom had been like a second mother to Scott.
"I light candles in church when I say a prayer, " said Alice Ajak, a mother, who lost two children during the long years of war.
He hopes to reach the north-east of England in September when he plans to lay his mother's ashes next to his grandmother's ashes in St James' Church in Coundon.
Every Sunday, as he has since I can first remember, he plays the largest church organ in Sarnia, near Lake Huron, where he lives with my mother.
Houston said the arrest came after Griego went to the family's church with his girlfriend, to whom he had sent a picture of his slain mother, and a staff member called deputies.
Our mother, Maud, and I were always waiting for Vivi: in the hall before we went to church or shouting for her from the landing to hurry up for school.
Summer, who was born in Boston and whose father was a butcher and mother a schoolteacher, sang from the moment she learned to talk, and her debut performance came in church at age 10 when the scheduled singer didn't show and the pastor asked Donna to step in.
Watson, whose mother sang around the house and whose father was a banjo player and vocalist who led the singing at their Baptist church, was a fingerstyle player who used a thumbpick for bass and a fingerpick for the treble strings -- a "two-finger" style that was self-taught.
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