Pilgrims are flocking to a woman’s home after an image of Jesus Christ “miraculously” appeared on a flour tortilla.

Housewife Iris Suyapa Caceres Castellanos was making dinner with her niece when they opened a bag of flat breads and came across the “divine apparition.”

Iris said she “felt something coming into my body from the soles of my feet” when she saw the Son of God burned in the center of the tortilla on Wednesday night.

Since then her house in La Sidra in eastern Honduras has received hundreds of devotees from all over the country who have come to witness the “miracle.”

She told the El Heraldo newspaper: “It is a call from God for young people to come close to Christ.

“I feel excited and blessed. I believe it is the image of God that I can see.”

She has placed the tortilla in a glass jar alongside other religious objects on a special altar in her front room, where pilgrims come to receive a blessing.

One believer, Olga Marina, 71, said: “You look at the little eyes, the little mustache and his hair, and a wheel that has formed around the outline this image in the tortilla. Can you imagine? It’s a miracle.”

Iris, who has a snack bar in the local council building, told how she and her niece found the vision of Christ as they prepared to make traditional dish baleada, flour tortillas filled with fried beans.

They used a pack of flat breads made by Melissa, the local tortilla seller.

Iris said: “We were ready to have dinner when my niece opened the bag of tortillas. She screamed when she saw the image and gave it straight to me, because she had opened it in my house.”

She said she has compared the image to the face of Jesus which appears in the Mormon Bible and believes it is identical.

Iris said she now wants to preserve the miracle tortilla “so I can have it for the rest of my life.”

She said: “It is a blessing for all my family, especially for my niece who was allowed to find it first.”

It is not the first time the image of Jesus has appeared in the unlikeliest places.

Earlier this year the image of Christ appeared in a tree trunk in the town of General Las Heras in Argentina. Thousands flocked there to receive a blessing.

In 2015 the face of Jesus appeared in the side of a hill following a landslide in the San Francisco area of Putumayo, Colombia.

Local landowners cashed in on the “miracle” by charging visitors to view it.

And in 2010 nurse Alex Cotton, from Coventry, believed she received a sign from God after a picture of Jesus appeared on her drainpipe.

She said: “Some people can see him straight away and other people can’t. I guess it’s just a matter of faith.”