Introduction of secondary seminaries

The formation of modern seminary establishments was a direct outcome of Roman Catholic reforms of the Counter-Reformation after the Council of Trent.  This reform insisted on the enrichment of the education of clergy by means of producing seminaries as live-in establishments which would be under the firsthand command of elderly clergy.  The introduction of secondary seminaries to develop young boys for the priesthood followed this first movement.  A seminary pattern called the Tridentine was that of a live in monastic community where lifestyle and entreaty were closely supervised and disciplined as a means to rectifying pre-Reformation ill-treatment among the clergy Christian Education .  The seminaries were very often in contrast to the more easy and unbound life styles of the universities.   There existed a very much greater vehemence was set on individual correction as well as the teaching of philosophy to train for theology.  Protestant social reformers of the day declined this overture.