12 June
AT Salamanca, in Spain, St. John of St. Facundus, confessor, of the Order of Augustinians, renowned for his zeal for the faith, for holiness of life, and miracles.—At Rome, on the Aurelian road, during the persecution of Decius and under the prefect Aurelius, the birthday of the holy martyrs Basilides, Cyrinus, Nabor, and Nazarius, soldiers, who were cast into prison for the confession of the Christian name, scourged with scorpions, and finally decapitated.—At Nicaea, in Bithynia, St. Antonina, martyr, who was scourged by order of the governor Priscillian during the same persecution, then racked, lacerated, exposed to the fire, and finally put to the sword.—In Thrace, St. Olympius, a bishop, who was expelled from his see by the Arians, and died a confessor.—At Rome, in the Vatican basilica, the pope St. Leo III., to whom God miraculously restored his eyes and his tongue after they had been torn out by impious men.—In Cilicia, the bishop St. Amphion, a celebrated confessor of the time of Galerius Maximian.—In Egypt, St. Onuphrius, an anchoret, who for sixty years led a religious life in the desert, and renowned for great virtues and merits, departed for heaven. His admirable deeds were recorded by the abbot Paphnutius.
And elsewhere many other holy martyrs, confessors and holy virgins.
Thanks be to God.