Epistle of Ignatius to the Tarsians Agathopus, the deacon from Syria, who follows me in Christ, salutes you. "Salute ye one another with a holy kiss."[38] Tertullian On Prayer our prayer ascends with more acceptability; that they may themselves participate in our observance, and thereby be mollified for transacting with their brother touching. their own peace? What prayer is complete if divorced from the "holy kiss? "[105] The Divine Liturgy of James The Deacon: Let us salute one another with an holy kiss.[16]