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The establishment of modern seminary institutions was a unquestioning outcome of Roman Catholic reforms of the Counter-Reformation after the Council of Trent.  This reform asserted on the enrichment of the education of clergy by means of making seminaries as live-in establishments which would be under the unquestioning control of ranking clergy, Systematic Theology .  The origination of secondary seminaries to develop young boys for the priesthood followed this first movement.  A seminary pattern called the Tridentine was that of a living in monastic community where lifestyle and supplication were closely monitored and rectified as a way to reclaiming pre-Reformation maltreatments among the clergy.  The seminaries were very often in direct contrast to the more loose and lacking life styles of the universities.   There followed a much greater vehemence was laid on individual correction as well as the education of philosophy to prepare for theology.  Protestant reformists of the day despised this approach path.