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The organization of modern seminary establishments was a firsthand termination of Roman Catholic reforms of the Counter-Reformation after the Council of Trent.  This reform took a firm stand on the enrichment of the training of clergy by means of producing seminaries as live-in establishments which would be under the rigorous control of senior clergy.  The origination of minor seminaries to develop young boys for the priesthood took after this first movement.  A Christian Degree seminary framework named the Tridentine was that of a live in monastic community where lifestyle and entreaty were closely supervised and chastened as a way to reforming pre-Reformation maltreatments among the clergy.  The seminaries were very much in counterpoint to the more loose and unhampered life styles of the universities.   There was a much greater vehemence was set on personal correction as well as the instruction of philosophy to train for theology.  Protestant reformists of the day refused this approach path.

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