 The largest residence hall on the St. Bonaventure University campus is named Devereux Hall in his honor.On his return from Italy he wrote a letter to the New York "Freeman's Journal" offering to be one of one hundred persons who would each give $1,000 towards founding a seminary at Rome, for the education of American priests.He had, moreover, several conversations with Cardinal Wiseman who promised to use his influence with Pope Pius IX to carry out the project.