THE monks at Belmont Abbey plan to sell their monastery in the wilds of Peru.
Built more than 15 years ago for just £45,000 the money will go to provide a bigger and better one near Lima.
Father Simon McGurk, recently parish priest at St Francis Xavier, Hereford is in charge of the new venture aiming to see the new monastery complete by the end of 2003.
The Belmont community started their Peru project in 1981 with Fathers Luke Waring, David Bird and Paul Stonham.
They looked after a large and barren rural parish of more than 100,000 people and, in 1984, Father Mark Jabale, a former Abbot at Belmont and now a Bishop in Swansea, arrived to buy land and build the monastery.