Need Latin Translation Help

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My son has his first communion on Easter Sunday at a Solemn High Mass in our parish. I want to purchase him a nice keepsake. The picture I am looking at is surrounded by a latin sentence that I am having a hard time translating. I don’t know much Latin and so I was hoping someone could assist me.

The phrase is:

ECCE PANIS ANGELORUM FACTUS CIBUS VIATORUM

I think this translates to:
Behold the Bread of Angels, the Messenger, Who has become the Food for men.

I think I am stuck on Viatorum. The dictionary says it means: messenger, traveler, etc. In looking at the stem and ending it appears that it also means that it refers to a male and is genetive declension. The dictionary also indicates that it may be plural. So that is why I am stuck. I am not sure how to rewrite the sentence so that this word reflects a plural meaning.

The item I am looking at is on page 8.5, upper right hand corner of the PDF located here: popevisit2008.com/catalog/2009/pdf/08-Communion.pdf

Any help would be appreciated.
 
PaulinVA said:
Dude, just go to “The Google”

SOLEMNITY OF CORPUS CHRISTI
HOMILY OF JOHN PAUL II
*Thursday 14 June 2001 *
  1. *“Ecce panis Angelorum, / factus cibus viatorum: / vere panis filiorum” “Behold the bread of angels, as pilgrims’ food inherited, it is the bread of all true heirs” *(Sequence).
vatican.va/holy_father/john_paul_ii/homilies/2001/documents/hf_jp-ii_hom_20010614_corpus-domini_en.html
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Actually, ‘vere’ is adverbial and means “truly the bread of heirs.”
If it was an adjective, to say “true heirs” it would need to be in the genitive plural to agree with filiorum.
 
I do not know if the translation from the Vatican is ICEL or merely poetic or what.
moon1234 said:
ECCE PANIS ANGELORUM FACTUS CIBUS VIATORUM
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For this fragment, I would render:
Behold the bread of Angels has become food for pilgrims.

:twocents:
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