This fact and the reason that the Seminario-colegios were not what the church meant them to be, moved the late Pope to exert all the means available to restore the Seminaries to their purpose. Pope Leo XIII, for instance, wrote to the Bishops in 1899: "It must not be forgotten that the only and exclusive purpose of the Seminary is the formation of the youth, not for civic careers, whatever good and noble they may be, but for Priesthood." At the end of the school year 1924-1925, the colegios were either closed or brought apart from the Seminaries. The Colegio de San Vicente Ferrer was transferred to the cathedral convent in 1925. Unfortunately, it was closed definitely two years later.