Unaffiliated religious individual's initiation in middle of day (8)

I haven't cracked this one yet — but the brilliant team at Times for the Times have:

I need help getting this to work. NUN (religious individual ) + first (…’s initiation) of individual, all in NOON (middle of day). But clearly ‘individual’ has two jobs in my parsing. Help! I was hoodwinked by the adjectival ‘religious’, and had never before seen the noun – thanks Kevin.