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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.”
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."
The first is the former Cistercian monastery Mosteiro de Santa Maria de Alcobaça.