Abstract

MIRALLES SANGRO, Mª Teresa; GIGANTE PEREZ, Crispín  and  MIRANDA CAMARERO, María Victoria. The Great Hall-Hospital of the Holy Spirit- Sassia. Index Enferm [online]. 2004, vol.13, n.47, pp.66-68. ISSN 1699-5988.

With these few words and using history as transmitter we will attempt to skim through the history of one of the most important hospitals originating in Medieval Europe; The Hospital of the Holy Spirit in Sassia. We point out the day-to-day life of patients and their nurses. Both perceived suffering and caring as means to eternal salvation. Together they lived there enduring institutionalised and medico-religious lives. These were the characteristics of the hospitals of the time until well into the XX century.