Baring-Gould’s sources: Belgian and Galilean Martyrologies. Authority Mention In the Life of S. Rumbold of Mechlin, which see.] S. Liebert was born at Mechlin, of parents already old and despairing of having children, at the prayer of S. Rumbold, who baptized and brought up the child. One day, as Liebert was playing with some other children by the side of the sluggish Dyle, he fell into the water and sank. At the cries of his parents, Rumbold hasted up, bent his knee in prayer, and when the child rose to the surface, caught it by the hair, and drew it out. The care of the parents soon restored consciousness and warmth to the little fellow, and he lived to run about merrily again. The incident was Inly 14] S. Hrosnata.

…reported from one person to another, and was exaggerated by popular rumour into a miracle of an astounding character — Liebert had been three days under water and quite dead. The prayer of the hermit had brought the corpse to the surface and inspired a new life into it.

When grown older, Liebert entered the monastery founded by S. Rumbold, and became abbot. But the invasion of the Normans obliged him to fly and take refuge in Hesbain. The ferocious Northmen penetrated thither, and he was killed by them, at the foot of the altar of S. Tron. His relics [the bodily remains of a saint, or objects they used, kept with honor] are preserved there; some also at Mechlin. The relics at S. Tron had been lost or forgotten; but were discovered in 1169. Those at Mechlin were brought thither in 1631.