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Telšiai Diocese Minor seminary in Lithuania

A minor seminary is a secondary boarding school created for the specific purpose of enrolling teenage boys who have expressed interest in becoming priests. Telšiai ( Samogitian: Telšē) is a City in Lithuania with about 35000 inhabitants Lithuania, officially the Republic of Lithuania (Lietuvos Respublika is a Country in Eastern often referred to as Northern Europe or in the A boarding school is a School where some or all pupils not only study but also live during term time with their fellow students and possibly teachers A priest or priestess is a person having the authority or power to administer religious rites in particular rites of sacrifice to and propitiation of a deity or deities They are generally Roman Catholic institutions, and designed to prepare boys both academically and spiritually for vocations to the priesthood and religious life. They emerged in cultures and societies where literacy was not universal, and the minor seminary was seen as a means to prepare younger boys in literacy for later entry into the major seminary.

The minor seminary is no longer very familiar in the English speaking world, as it once was in Europe. The 1917 Code of Canon Law described the purpose of minor seminaries as: "to take care especially to protect from the contagion of the world, to train in piety, to imbue with the rudiments of literary studies, and to foster in them the seed of a divine vocation". Canon Law, the Ecclesiastical law of the Catholic Church, is a fully developed legal system with all the necessary elements courts lawyers judges a fully articulated

Suitable boys were encouraged to graduate into the Major Seminary where they would continue their tertiary studies for the priesthood. A seminary, theological college, or divinity school is a specialized and often live-in Higher education institution for the purpose of instructing students

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