 Benedictine offers education through a private military institute model, which has long been a traditional form of education for young men in Virginia.Benedictine College Preparatory was founded in 1911 with 29 students, under the name of Benedictine College, by a group of Benedictine monks from Belmont Abbey in North Carolina.Seeking to continue the work of their founder by establishing learning and culture, they came to Richmond to establish a Catholic high school for boys.