In the city of Mozhga, with the blessing of Bishop Pavel of Sarapul and Mozhga, the exhibition "Non licet vos esse. You shouldn't be", organized by the SFI and the Transfiguration Brotherhood

From December 1 to January 30, the exhibition "Non licet vos esse" will be held in the city of Mozhga (Udmurtia). You shouldn't be," dedicated to the centenary of the campaign to seize church valuables in 1922.
Until December 27, the exhibition, organized by the Transfiguration Brotherhood and the St. Philaret Institute with the blessing of Bishop Pavel of Sarapul and Mozhginsky, will be available at the Church of Archangel Michael, and from December 27 to January 30 it will be exhibited at the Museum of Local Lore.
The exhibition is dedicated to the tragic events in the history of Russia of the 20th century, the persecution of the Orthodox Church and its resistance to the godless actions of the Bolshevik authorities.
"Few people know about the events of 1922, and there is no future without the past. It is important to hold such exhibitions so that people know their history, draw conclusions and change their lives, directing it towards the church," said Archpriest Dimitri Angelich, dean of the Mozhginsky district.
The organizers of the exhibition, members of the Transfiguration Brotherhood and graduates of the St. Philaret Institute, conducted an excursion at the opening, at the end of which fragments of letters, diaries, memoirs of new martyrs and confessors of the Russian Church - members of communities and brotherhoods, testifying to the spiritual resistance of the church in the era of persecution, were heard.
Previously, the exhibition was exhibited in Moscow at the Cathedral of Christ the Savior and the Central Museum of Modern History of Russia, in St. Petersburg at the Alexander Nevsky Lavra Museum, as well as in museums and temples in Arkhangelsk, Voronezh, Yekaterinburg, Tver and other Russian cities.
About the exhibition
«Non licet vos esse. You shouldn't be." By such a sentence, the Roman emperors deprived the first Christians of the right to exist. The Soviet government was guided by the same principle in its persecution of the Church, which has been steadily increasing since 1917. 
The clergy and other representatives of the Russian Orthodox Church were among those "class-hostile" strata of society that were sentenced by the Soviet government to complete destruction – the nobility, merchants, intellectuals, peasantry, and Cossacks. At the same time, the new government's hatred of the fundamental values of human life — faith, love, freedom, dignity, fraternity — carefully hidden behind a loud and deceitful ideology manifested itself with special force in the repression against believers. 

The exhibition is dedicated to one of the most dramatic pages in the history of the persecution of the Church – the seizure of church valuables. The seizure campaign, the pretext for which was the famine in the Volga region, in fact turned into an external and internal ruin of the Church. The Soviet government not only sought to undermine the property status of the Church and compromise it in the eyes of the people, but also encroached on the foundations of church life: the most faithful and ardent Christians were destroyed, shrines were desecrated, and the sprouts of schism were sown and nurtured. 

Among the valuables seized from the Church were many priceless monuments of history and culture, applied art and icon painting. They were destroyed or sold for a song and taken out of the country. By destroying the Church, the government destroyed the centuries-old "mechanism" of storing historical memory, deprived the people of the past, and uprooted a living cultural tradition. 

The exhibition, which was timed to coincide with the 100th anniversary of the campaign to seize church valuables (2022), tells about the events that took place in Moscow, Petrograd and other cities, about people who tried to protect the Church from ruin at the cost of their lives. The exhibition also contains materials about these events in Udmurtia.