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August 2, 2003 at 9:58 pm #568About Catholics TeamKeymaster
Does anyone know how many saints have actually been canonized? I think there’s a few thousand, but I am wondering if anyone knows the exact number.
November 12, 2006 at 9:59 pm #7371AnonymousInactiveThere are over 10,000 named saints and beati from history, the Roman Martyology and Orthodox sources, but no definitive “head count”.
November 12, 2006 at 11:15 pm #7372AnonymousInactiveThere’s an attempt at a list here:
http://www.catholic.org/saints/stindex.phpIf you want, I can write a quick script that would count them.
November 12, 2006 at 11:24 pm #7373AnonymousInactiveOkay, I did it anyway… There appear to be 5,960 unique saints in that index.
November 12, 2006 at 11:46 pm #7374AnonymousInactiveThat’s allot did you actually count them?
November 13, 2006 at 12:08 am #7375AnonymousInactiveYes, in a manner of speaking. I had the computer count them:
[code:htszz88u]#!/usr/bin/perl
use strict;
my %saints;
for(’A’..’Z’)
{
my $page = `wget -O – http://www.catholic.org/saints/stindex.php?lst=$_`;
while($page =~ s/saint.php?saint_id=(d+)//)
{
$saints{$1} = 1;
}
}print scalar(keys(%saints))."n";
[/code:htszz88u]November 13, 2006 at 12:10 am #7376About Catholics TeamKeymasterI ripped the entire Bible from the USCCB’s website and put it in XML format one time.
I did mine in PHP though.
November 13, 2006 at 1:18 am #7379AnonymousInactiveyou guys are amazing,It took me two hours to count them by hand
November 13, 2006 at 1:30 am #7380AnonymousInactive[quote:5x9emrd0]you guys are amazing,It took me two hours to count them by hand[/quote:5x9emrd0]
[color=green:5x9emrd0]lol. That’s funny stuff Weather. Now I have to wipe A&W root beer off my monitor.[/color:5x9emrd0]
November 13, 2006 at 2:24 am #7381AnonymousInactiveHokey smokes, weather, did you really count them? What result did you get?
Jon, what did you end up doing with your XML Bible?
November 13, 2006 at 2:40 am #7382About Catholics TeamKeymaster[quote:320db39h]Jon, what did you end up doing with your XML Bible?[/quote:320db39h]
Nothing, yet. I was going to find a way to integrate it into this site, but I haven’t had any time for development. -
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