Saint Girald of Aurillac was a French religious (855-918). Founder of the abbey that bears his name in the French region of Auvergne. He has been attributed with the creation of the ancient hospital and monastery of Saint Girald of Aurillac, on the occasion of his pilgrimage to Santiago de Compostela.
In 1486, the Catholic Monarchs, who passed through the site on a pilgrimage to Compostela, took the opportunity to take several measures to strengthen the economy of this centre, while at the same time separating it from the abbey of Saint Girald, with which it had little contact. They made it dependent on the Benedictines of Valladolid.
From the mid-1960s, the old hospital, first converted into a hostel and then into a guest house, acted in practice as one of the centres of the Jacobean revival.
