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When I was a child, I had exactly the same feeling. The southern Presbyterian church in which I was raised was not much for religious pictures (there were none at all in the sanctuary) but a certain picture of Christ appeared in some Sunday School materials. He could be the same man/being shown in this picture that was used as a backdrop during the 2000 US presidential campaign.
But when I became a man and began to travel, I started seeing all sorts of pictures. When I saw the article by the man with certainty, we were living in Brussels. A few months later we made a visit to Italy and discovered in Rome a special exhibit titled "The Face of Christ." There were over 100 images, most created prior to 700. In no way could they be considered all of the same face. Photography was forbidden at that exhibit, but it gave me the incentive to start making a collection of my own images. Most are photos I took in Italy and Belgium, with a few pictures I found on the web. (You can click on most of them for a larger image.)
About the only pattern I can determine in these pictures is that the image of Christ at any given time and place is a reflection of the norms of the person who created the picture.
For a different aspect on this question, check Helmut Felzmann's web site on the Shroud of Turin.
last update 30 October 2006