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Cistercian monks protested that such a sumptuous structure was an insult to the godly virtue of poverty, and today, architectural purists still find Notre-Dame a bit “too much.”
The first is the former Cistercian monastery Mosteiro de Santa Maria de Alcobaça.
But then in the 12 th century, an obscure Cistercian monk, Joachim of Fiore, developed a powerful and original theology (three books, including the Expositio in Apocalypsim ), which put eschatology into history . (As the Marxist Ernst Bloch said: "Joachim was the first to set a date for the kingdom of God, for the communist kingdom."