Misericordia, fraternidad y las cofradías de Santiago

In the early European Middle Ages, the founding of fraternities was promoted in the urban Christian world, developing during centuries ties of an affective and charitable type among their members, also assuming the practice of charity with the living and deceased. In their hospitals they received the poor and pilgrims, and as a consequence of the great Jacobean pilgrimage, many of them promoted the cult of Saint James the Elder and the pilgrimage to Compostela