His artistic handiwork with fabric, thread, and stained glass is so moving that it has graced churches as far as Italy and Japan.

And now, after 26 years, it is literally moving to a new home.

The Rev. Richard Cannuli is downsizing to another Augustinian residence on Villanova’s campus.

In the process, he will sell some, donate some, and curate some of his liturgical vestments, icons, and watercolor paintings for an October art exhibition at the university, according to a Philadelphia Inquirer report by Kristin Holmes.

“I feel that when I am working and creating, I am most in contact with God,” said Cannuli, a studio art professor and gallery director.

Villanova is where Cannuli earned his own bachelor’s degree in fine arts so many decades ago, and he has long taught iconography there.

“He has developed a spiritual love of ecclesiastical art, which is basically the theology of the church in color and line,” said Rev. John Perich of St. Herman of Alaska Orthodox Church in Glen Mills.

Read more about the life and art of Father Cannuli in the Philadelphia Inquirer here.