The abbey that was Echternach's raison d'être was rebuilt in 1862 but bombed to rubble during WWII, when much of the town was severely damaged. Nonetheless, Willibrord’s relics slept peacefully in the crypt and today the complex has been rebuilt. The new incarnation is a dark and sombre affair with 1950s stained-glass windows, but the vaulted crypt still contains the highly venerated relics of St Willibrord in a primitive stone coffin covered by an elaborate white-marble canopy.
