A juvenile is an institution that was often associated with men's monasteries, which forms the first stage in the education of the monastery. The students were usually internally.
In fact, a juvenile is equivalent to a mini-seminar, but parish priests are usually trained in an episcopal mini-seminar. The juvenile was a mini-seminar of a monastic order or congregation.
Through the secularization, most juveniles have evolved into regular high schools or humanities.
The name juvenile hangs ethymologically together with juvenile, youth form.
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