Mabel non è nella Bibbia — Significa “Amabile”

Mabel is not in the Bible. It is the medieval form of the Latin Amabilis, and Amabilis means lovable. Which is a beautiful thing to be called and a heavy thing to carry, dear friends, because lovable is a judgement — and most of us have spent some part of our lives quietly failing the test. What does the name Mabel mean? Lovable. Amabilis was a Roman cognomen with that plain meaning, and it belonged to Saint Amabilis, a fifth-century…