WELCOME! The Miraculous Rescue of Saint Ludger 's Mother Saint Ludger After the death of the noble Wursing , his son Thiadgrim became lord of his father's estate and married Liafburga , a Christian, daughter of a certain Nodradus and Adelburga . Liafburga had been rescued from certain death as a newborn child by a miraculous act of providence. Adelburga's mother-in-law, a bitter pagan, reproached her Christian daughter-in-law for bearing only daughters and no male heirs; she claimed this was a just punishment for her having turned her back on the ancient pagan gods by becoming a Christian. When the young Liafburga was born, the mother-in-law gave orders to some servants, snorting with rage, to tear the child away from its mother and to kill it immediately, before it had even suckled at her mother's breast. According to Frisian law, it was permissible to kill a child as long as it had not yet consumed any earthly food, a strange regulation that w...