HUNDREDS of believers have flocked to a hillside in Colombia after a landslide revealed the face of Jesus.
The “miraculous” discovery was made in the San Francisco area of Putumayo, Colombia, on Saturday.
Since then police have had to be called in to control the crowds as believers from across the country have descended on the hill to witness the “miracle.”
Now some local landowners are cashing in by charging visitors to view the holy image.
“If you believe in Jesus, you will see your image,” Ximena Rosero Arango told Colombian newspaper El Tiempo after visiting the site to photograph the image.
The image has also been making the rounds on social media since Saturday, when the crowds first began arriving.
It certainly is not the first time that the face of Jesus has appeared somewhere unexpected.
In 2012, the Son of God was discovered on a wall by a painter and decorator working on a house in Eldroth, near Austwick, North Yorkshire, in Britain.
Sam Dalby discovered the divine countenance on a roughly plastered section of wall.
His face has also been spotted in household items and even stains.
Nurse Alex Cotton, 38, found an image of Jesus in a drainpipe at her home in Coventry, West Midlands, England, which was dubbed “the Second plumbing.”
Bank worker Toby Elles claimed he was saved by divine intervention when he woke to find a burning frying pan on his cooker.
On further inspection of his singed bacon snack he also found the face of the Son of God burnt to the bottom of the pan.
In the U.S., Mary Jo Coady, a medical secretary from Massachusetts made a similar discovery burned on her iron while doing housework.
The 44-year-old said the image immediately renewed her faith in God.
Drinkers at the Tanners Hall pub in Darlington, County Durham, were stunned to see the face of Christ in the foil top of a Bulmers cider bottle.
And mother-of-three Claire Allen, 36, found the Savior’s friendly features in the lid of a jar of Marmite which was smeared with the yeast-based spread.
She said: “I opened the Marmite jar and the lid caught my eye. Immediately I thought, that’s Jesus. It wasn’t a new jar, but I’d never noticed that before.”
Allen, of Ystrad, Rhondda, South Wales, showed the lid to her older boys Jamie, 14, and Tomas, 11.
“They both thought it looked like the images of Jesus you see in paintings and on stained glass windows,” she said.(SD-Agencies)
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