The shaping of modern seminary establishments was a literal consequence of Roman Catholic reforms of the Counter-Reformation after the Council of Trent.  This reform asserted on the enrichment of the training of clergy by means of creating seminaries as live-in institutions which would be under the direct hold of elderly clergy.  The conception of secondary seminaries to educate young boys for the priesthood followed this basic movement.  A seminary framework called the Tridentine was that of a living in monastic community where lifestyle and prayer were closely monitored and adjusted as a way to reclaiming pre-Reformation maltreatments among the clergy.  The seminaries were very often in contrast to the more loose and footloose life styles of the universities seminary schools .   There comprised a very much greater stress was set on personal correction as well as the teaching of philosophy to groom for theology.  Protestant reformers of the day rejected this approach path.

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