BackgroundIn 2011 a man calling himself the Rev. Ryan St. Anne purchased the former Buchanan County Care Center and began converting it into what he called Buchanan Abbey.St. Anne and a colleague tended about 20 Argentine llamas, which they said would become part of their healing ministry.When the abbey began hosting Mass and other religious services, the Archdiocese of Dubuque warned its faithful “to exercise great caution in relating to” Buchanan Abbey and said it had no evidence that St.