What evidence do you have contrary to the practice? Did the Fathers condemn it?
“What evidence do you have contrary to the practice? Did the Fathers condemn it?”
This is your standard for Christianity? Things the Fathers didn’t practice, command or teach, but hey, they didn’t condemn it???
Your call, but frankly, that is the path that has incorporated cultic practices into Catholicism as “traditions” that are equal to Holy Writ.