Upon the 12th day of June, were  born into the better life:   
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At Salamanca, in Spain, the holy Confessor John of San Fagondez, of the Order of Hermits of St. Augustine, famous for his zeal for the faith, the  holiness of his life, and his wonderful works. 
At Rome, upon the Aurelian Way, the holy soldiers Basilides, Cyrinus, Nabor, and Nazarius, all martyrs,  who were thrust into prison under Aurelius the Prefect, in the persecution under Diocletian and Maximian, because of their Christian profession, and after they had been torn with armed scourges, were beheaded. 
At Nice, in Bithynia, the holy  martyr Antonina, who in the same persecution was, by the order of Priscillian the President, beaten with clubs, hung upon the rack, torn in the sides, burnt with fire, and at last slain with the sword. 
In Thrace, [in the fourth century,] holy Olympius, Bishop [of Enos,] who was thrust out of his see by the  Arians and died a Confessor. 
At Rome, in the Vatican Basilica, [in the year 816,] the holy Pope Leo III, whose eyes and tongue were torn out by wicked men, [in the year 799,] but wonderfully given back to him by God. 
In Cilicia, holy Amphion, Bishop  [of Nicomedia,] who was an eminent Confessor in the time of the Emperor Galerius Maximian. 
In Egypt, [toward the beginning of the fifth century,] the holy Hermit Onuphrius, who lived in the great  desert for sixty years and passed to heaven illustrious for great, mighty, and worthy deeds his famous acts were written by the Abbot Paphnutius.