There are over 10,000 named saints and beati from history, the Roman Martyology and Orthodox sources, but no definitive "head count". Infact there is a saint for each letter of the alaphebet. Canonization, the process the Church uses to name a saint, has only been used since the tenth century. For hundreds of years, starting with the first martyrs of the early Church, saints were chosen by public acclaim. Though this was a more democratic way …
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…-- although some of the saints that have been dropped were legendary and there is little evidence they existed. Religious orders, countries, localities, and individuals are free to celebrate the feast days of saints not listed on the universal calendar but which have some importance to them. And there are indeed feast days for saints every day of the year. As a matter of fact there are at least three saints for almost every day.