They were designated madrasas or seminaries.
That the schoolboy was an apt and docile pupil may be inferred from the prizes which he won during his passage through the classes of the suburban seminary.
Virginia also pursued a controversial practice of not granting corporate status to churches or to their agencies, including seminaries.
Random sampling of the replies which students coming to the continental seminaries gave about their family background reveals startling degrees of division in religion.
The boldest and most prominent liberal divines of the 1870s and 1880s tended to be pastors who were less subject to ecclesiastical discipline than were seminary professors.
Definitely not the scholasticism of the seminaries, which he deemed incapable of applying rational analysis to modern social problems.
But parish priests also refused to surrender their sons to the seminaries.
Masses are packed to overflowing with people of all ages; and local seminaries are full.
