Payment for attendance at a teachers’ seminary, where elementary school teachers were trained in most parts of Germany from the end of the 18th century. The candidates were prepared for their profession there in a two- to three-year course and also regularly lived in the seminary building. – Pedagogical academies with four-semester courses for teachers were established in Germany from around 1920; these gradually merged with universities around 1970. – In the Catholic Church, a levy (seminaristicum, alumnaticum, also TAXA CONCILIARIS) allowed by the Council of Trent in 1563, which a bishop may collect from parishes for the purpose of establishing and maintaining a diocesan seminary as an institution for the training of candidates for the priesthood. – See indulgence money, annuities, dispensational money, cathedral money, church money, offering money, St. Peter’s penny, procuration money, school money, title church maintenance money.
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