Three sisters, new to the archdiocese will staff the school of religion which will be operated by the parish of St. Thomas the Apostle at Smyrna, Father Richard Morrow, pastor, announced.

The new religious are members of the Sisters of the Holy Humility of Mary whose motherhouse is at Villa Maria, Pa. They are popularly known as “Blue Nuns” and operate and staff school and hospitals in the diocese of Youngstown, Cleveland and Pittsburgh.

Mother Mary Lourdes, Sister Gemma and three other nuns attended the Archdiocesan Sisters’ Congress held here in May.

The Smyrna school of religion is the second such institution being readied in the archdiocese. Holy Cross parish, under the direction of Father Leonard F.X. Mayhew, was the first.

“The Blue Nuns have already shown evidence of their conciliar thinking,” said Archbishop Paul J. Hallinan. “Like our own splendid communities in the archdiocese, they were right at home at our Sisters’ Congress. We welcome them as religious new to Atlanta, and I personally welcome them as my first teachers at St. Mary in Painesville, Ohio, and the community to which my aunt, Sister Anna Maria, gave 50 years of her life.”