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Altarpiece : Top Panel : Angels Adore Host and Latin Inscription
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In the small panel above, two kneeling angels adore the chalice and Host. The latin inscription near the top "Ecce panis Angelorum..." is from a eucharistic hymn written in the mid thirteenth century and traditionally ascribed to St. Thomas Aquinas. It may be translated as follows: "Behold the bread of angels, made food for pilgrams:truly the bread of sons, not sent for dogs" Until the liturgical changes of the Second Vatical Council these words formed part of the Mass on the feast of Corpus Christi.
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