Sacred water for coronation ceremonies reaches Interior Ministry

BANGKOK, April 10 (TNA) -- Governors of provinces were bringing vases of sacred water to the Interior Ministry as it will be stored there for coronation-related ceremonies in May. In the morning Chatchai Phromlert, permanent secretary of the Interior Ministry, paid homage in front of a portrait of His Majesty King Maha Vajiralongkorn in the ministry’s pavilion where the vases of sacred water would be delivered. From 7.50am onwards, motorcades transporting the vases started to reach the ministry. In the morning, the vases arrived from provinces in the Central Plains and the East. Motorcades carrying the vases of sacred water from the North, the South and the Northeast arrived in the afternoon. At 4.30pm, the permanent secretary of the Interior Ministry and its senior officials were set to deliver nine vases of Muratha Bhisek water. The Bangkok Metropolitan Administration will bring a vase of Aphisek water from the Sattrakhom Hall in the Grand Palace to the Interior Ministry on April 12. On April 18, a procession will deliver the vases to Wat Suthat Thepphawararam. All the sacred water will undergo a blessing ceremony there. On April 19, the vases of Aphisek water will be moved from Wat Suthat Thepphawararam to the Temple of the Emerald Buddha in the Grand Palace. Muratha Bhisek water came from nine sacred sources and Aphisek water from 108 sources including one at the Sattrakhom Hall in the Grand Palace and the rest from sacred sources in 76 other provinces. (END)