The sign read: ‘Shop closed, nothing left, sorry! Thank you for your support over the years. Please keep Mount Melleray, the monks and the local community in your prayers. Please God, Melleray will rise again. God bless’.
Succinct and sad, the neatly typed sign on a glass panel on the door of the Mount Melleray shop said it all.
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