{"collection":"chr","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/chr/ecf/001/0010275.htm","path":"chr/ecf/001/0010275.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/chr/ecf/001/0010275.htm","text":"I salute the holy presbytery. I salute the sacred deacons, and that person most dear to me, 1258 whom may I behold, through the Holy Spirit, occupying my place when I shall attain to Christ. My soul be in place of his. I salute the sub-deacons, the readers, the singers, the doorkeepers, the labourers, 1259 the exorcists, the confessors. 1260 I salute the keepers of the holy gates, the deaconesses in Christ. I salute the virgins betrothed to Christ, of whom may I have joy in the Lord Jesus. 1261 I salute the people of the Lord, from the smallest to the greatest, and all my sisters in the Lord.\nLiterally, \u201cthe name desirable to me,\u201d referring to Hero the deacon.\n112:1259\nA class of persons connected with the Church, whose duty it was to bury the bodies of the martyrs and others.\n112:1260\nSuch as voluntarily confessed Christ before Gentile rulers.\n112:1261\nSome insert here a clause referring to widows.","title":"Ante-Nicene Fathers, Vol I: IGNATIUS: Chapter XII.\u2014Salutations.","type":"page"}