By OSWALD T. BROWN
NASSAU, Bahamas – The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Nassau announced on Thursday, December 17, that Devereaux E. King, a Bahamian seminarian, was ”recently installed into Candidacy for Holy Orders at Saint Meinrad Seminary and School of Theology (Saint Meinrad, Indiana, in the Saint Thomas Aquinas Chapel.
Announcing this on its Facebook page, the Archdiocese said that the Rector of the seminary, Fr. Denis Robinson, OSB, celebrated Candidacy Mass.
“In the Admission to Candidacy rite, the candidate for ordination publicly expresses his intention to receive ordination as a Deacon and subsequently as a Priest,” the Archdiocese revealed. “Our prayers as Devereaux continues his journey to the priesthood.”
Devereaux is the son of my cousin Leonardette Ross and Danny King, and I remember attending their wedding at St. Francis Xavier Cathedral on December 21, 1991 as if it were yesterday. I was living in Washington, D.C., at the time and I flew down to Nassau from D.C. for the occasion, and recall being asked to propose a toast at the reception.
Devereaux is also the grandson of my late cousin Sylvia Elliott Ross, who as I have noted on several occasions in articles I have posted on Facebook was very instrumental in helping to steer my life in the right direction from I was virtually a baby growing up with my grandparents Ben and Mabel Elliott at Stanyard Creek, Andros
Devereaux graduated from Saint John Vianney College Seminary in Miami on Wednesday, May 8, 2019 and subsequently was accepted into Saint Meinrad Seminary and School of Theology in Indiana to continue his quest to become Priest of the Roman Catholic Church, which has nurtured and sustained the spiritual growth of members of his family throughout the years.
