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In the early sixth century, a monk from India named Da Mo arrived at Shaolin, where he founded Chan Buddhism.
Behind him is Padua’s great site of pilgrimage, the 13th- and 14th-century Basilica of Sant’Antonio, the city’s protector simply known as II Santo, built in honor of the Portuguese-born Franciscan monk who died in Padua in 1231.
At the northern edge of the district is Bozu Jigoku (“Monk’s Hell”), an obscenely bubbling mud pond where a Buddhist temple once stood until it was submerged in an earthquake back in the 15th century.
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."
It was burned down by a fanatical young monk in 1950, rebuilt in 1955 as an exact replica of the original structure, and renovated in 1987 with a brand new gold-foil covering.