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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.
There are over 10,000 named saints and beati from history, the Roman Martyology and Orthodox sources, but no definitive “head count”.
There’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.
Okay, I did it anyway… There appear to be 5,960 unique saints in that index.
That’s allot did you actually count them?
Yes, 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]I ripped the entire Bible from the USCCB’s website and put it in XML format one time.
I did mine in PHP though.
you guys are amazing,It took me two hours to count them by hand
[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]
Hokey smokes, weather, did you really count them? What result did you get?
Jon, what did you end up doing with your XML Bible?
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