It was therefore decided by the National Council, with the consent of the King, that it should be held at the old church of St.Sava at Vissarion--the former home of the Queen.

Accordingly, arrangements had been made to bring thither on the warships on the morning of the coronation the whole of the nation's guests.

In St.Sava's the religious ceremony would take place, after which there would be a banquet in the Castle of Vissarion.
The guests would then return on the warships to Plazac, where would be held what is called here the "National Coronation." In the Land of the Blue Mountains it was customary in the old days, when there were Kings, to have two ceremonies--one carried out by the official head of the national Church, the Greek Church; the other by the people in a ritual adopted by themselves, on much the same basis as the Germanic Folk-Moot.

The Blue Mountains is a nation of strangely loyal tendencies.
What was a thousand years ago is to be to-day--so far, of course, as is possible under the altered condition of things.
The church of St.Sava is very old and very beautiful, built in the manner of old Greek churches, full of monuments of bygone worthies of the Blue Mountains.

But, of course, neither it nor the ceremony held in it to-day can compare in splendour with certain other ceremonials--for instance, the coronation of the penultimate Czar in Moscow, of Alfonso XII.