Hornillos del Camino: what's the difference?

[Bert45]

I took a photo of the Hospital de Peregrinos Santo Espíritu in Hornillos del Camino. I googled for some information and found this:

Hospital de Peregrinos Santo Espíritu​

"Durante la época medieval fueron creados aquí tres hospitales para atender a los peregrinos. Dos de estos lugares llevaban el nombre de San Lázaro, destinado a leprosos y peregrinos, y el Hospital de Peregrinos Santo Espíritu en Hornillos del Camino, es el único que se ha mantenido, creado para romeros y peregrinos. Actualmente este recinto tiene un área separada como lugar de encuentro de la peregrinación moderna." [/viajecaminodesantiago.com/camino-frances/hornillos-camino/]

"... para romeros y peregrinos." My small Spanish-English dictionary translates 'romero' as 'pilgrim'. 'peregrino' is also translated as 'pilgrim'. So the Hospital was created for pilgrims and pilgrims. An automatic translation gave me 'created for rosemary and pilgrims', which seemed an unlikely alternative.

My question is, therefore, what's the difference between a romero and a peregrino?

 

[Kiwi-family]

could it be this?

 

[dbier]

Weren't Romeros pilgrims to Rome?

 

[dick bird]

Weren't Romeros pilgrims to Rome?

Originally, yes, but the word ´romero´ was later extended to mean all pilgrims. In English, the same thing happened to the word ´palmer´ so romero and perergrino could be taken as synonyms, if not exact ones. A local festival is referred to in Spain as a ´Romería´, especially if it involves a procession. ´Romero´ is also the word for ´rosemary´.

 

[Kathar1na]

Indeed, the RAE says that romero and peregrino are synonyms.

Here on the forum posters sometimes emphasise that a romería is a short pilgrimage, for example a pilgrimage that takes only a day or less, and peregrinación is a long-distance pilgrimage.

The English language lacks nouns that would make a distinction between the two. German has Wallfahrer and Pilger where it is similar: the two words are synonyms but Pilger is more associated with a longer pilgrimage than Wallfahrer.

See www.rae.es and www.Duden.de.

 

[Kathar1na]

The pilgrim albergue "Santo Espiritu" in Hornillos is merely named after a former medieval pilgrim albergue/hospital. The medieval albergue itself has disappeared. It had been built in a different location than the current pilgrim albergue.

Gitlitz/Davidson write - and I trust them on this and I've looked of course elsewhere, too, before quoting them: "Carved on the first house on the right after the first crossroads in the town of Hornillos are the cross of Santiago and a chalice. This was the former Hospital de Sancti Spiritus [= of the Holy Spirit]."