Epistle of Ignatius to the Antiochians Philo and Agathopus, the deacons, my companions, salute you, "Salute one another with a holy kiss."[49] 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]