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At Garson & Sons religious goods store, 2139 San Mateo Blvd. N.E., you can buy a rosary for as little as 20 cents, or pay up to $875 for this handmade sterling silver item.
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How do you convey Albuquerque? This week we've been looking at some of the numbers that define our fair city and its people, paths and patterns. You can find the first two in the series at www.abqtrib.com. Today's offering: a digital snapshot of how we nurture our spirits.
Cost of rosary at Garson & Sons religious goods store, 2139 San Mateo Blvd. N.E.: ranges from 20 cents for a plastic version to up to $875 for a sterling silver one with heart-shaped beads.
Number of parishoners who attend weekly services at Calvary of Albuquerque, 4001 Osuna Road N.E., a Christian church believed to be Albuquerque's largest: between 12,000 and 14,000.
Number of parishoners who are members of Hoffmantown Church, 8888 Harper Drive N.E.: 6,000, with 2,500 attending weekend services.
Year that San Felipe de Neri Parish in Old Town was started: 1706, making it 300 years old.
Renovations have cost about $2 million so far. Additional work on the rectory and other buildings is still to come.
Number of Southern Baptist churches in Albuquerque: 38, with roughly 11,000 members.
Number of Jewish households in Albuquerque: 6,000.
Number of students who take religious studies courses per semester at the University of the New Mexico: between 1,600 and 1,800.
Number of students per class in Bikram's Yoga College of India, Albuquerque, 1930 Juan Tabo Blvd. N.E.: About 50, up from 30 when the college opened in 2003.
Number of members at the Albuquerque Zen Center, 2300 Garfield Ave. S.E.: From about 350 people on its mailing list in 1989 to about 700 now.
Number of refugees helped annually by one program of Catholic Charities, a faith-based nonprofit family service agency, 6001 Marble Ave. N.E.: about 500, from all over the world. The organization annually serves about 10,000 people in central and northern New Mexico.
Number of meals the Albuquerque Rescue Mission, 525 Second St. S.W., estimates it will serve this year: about 201,000 up from about 170,000 last year.
Number of nuns at the two Felician Sisters living quarters in Rio Rancho and Albuquerque: 36.
Cost for a night at the Norbertine Hermitage Retreat in the South Valley: $35. The room is equivalent to an efficiency apartment and rests on 70 acres belonging to the Norbertine Community of New Mexico, 5825 Coors Road S.W.
Cost of one hour with Albuquerque astrologer Sandy Bryan: $60; two hours cost $100. What you'll buy is a big-picture perspective of who you are and how you operate in the world, which can help with decision-making, Bryan says.
Number of clients served by the Jewish Family Service of New Mexico's Senior Transportation Project this year: 1,376. That comes to 5,781 trips to medical appointments, grocery stores and social activities. The two vans providing the service racked up 52,204 miles total.
