Although those studying for the priesthood are generally called seminarians, in the Society of Jesus, the technical name of those who have taken their first simple and perpetual vows of poverty, chastity, and obedience, after two years’ probation in a novitiate, is a scholastic. It is a way of designating the next stage of formation for such men, which is primarily studying philosophy and humanities, specializing in certain fields in some cases, and then going on to study theology before ordination at some later stage.