An internal school where the Church trains future priests, with studies in Latin and theology and religious life under the direction of a rector. In the book, it is the Seminary of S. José, in Rio: Bentinho enters at fifteen to fulfill his mother's promise, and Father Cabral admits he may leave after two years if no vocation appears.
Where It Appears
- Chapters I to XII: The Accusation, the Opera, and the Promise
- Chapters XLII to LIII: The Oath at the Well and the Departure
- Chapters XCIII to C: The Substitute and the Bachelor
Quotes
then Hope, to fight Terror, whispered to my heart, not these words, for it articulated nothing like words, but an idea that could be rendered by them: "Mama's dead, the seminary is over."
Chapters LXVI to LXXVII: Escobar's Visit and the Horseman, the narrator
Escobar kept rising thus from the grave, from the seminary, and from Flamengo to sit with me at the table, to greet me on the stairs, to kiss me in the study in the morning, or to ask me at night for the customary blessing
Chapters CXXV to CXXXV: The Resemblance and Othello, the narrator