La Sanch  of Spain occupies a prominent place among the fraternities in Girona, since documents trace its inception back to the year 1568 and that during its history, it has emerged as an inevitable attraction, capable of influencing the evolution of other penitential brotherhoods, sometimes subjecting them to absorbtion and sometimes instead favoring their emergence.

It was precisely on the 5th October 1568 that an important meeting took place in the cloister and church of the Carmelites of this city. On this occasion the statutes were re-written the content being intended to define the guidelines and the organisation of the Brotherhood who were named "La Sang." The following year on October 24th 1569, the foundation of the brotherhood was ratified in Barcelona thanks to a royal privilege which gave them the primary task to "mercifully attend and assist the convicts in their final hour and to provide for their burial". The other  mission alloted to the brotherhood was clad, from the outset, in a funerary character identical to that which we have already seen in the articles about La Sanch of Perpignan, whose existence we should noted, came well before that of the Girona group. The similarity in function, their exclusive and religious character allows us to assume that a relationship existed between these two Catalan brotherhoods, and that La Sang of Girona which is more recent, had it's parentage in La Sanch of Perpignan. This point taken along with other evidence concerning the origin of La Sang, will be documented later in this study. On the subject of the founding of La Sanch, we must specify that its statutes were modified a few years after its creation. In fact we can  determine  that in 1584, the number of colleagues who, in a somewhat similar manner to what can be found in Freemasonry, numbered 33, the number of years of Christ's life. We have here a symbolic figure, which as far as the penitents are concerned the significance is totally unrelated to the life of Christ, having only a connection with the concepts of astrology, the cycle of the seasons, the pagan hell and of course,repentance. The number thirty-three (33) is in fact interpreted in their own way, as the specific number of the fallen angels who were thrown down from heaven. It represents all at once; incarnation, death, and the reincarnation of fallen souls.

Around 1699, La Sang of Girona flourished and underwent a restructuring, and enlisted a second  brotherhood which hitherto had remained independent. This was l’Archiconfrérie de l’Egorgement de Saint Jean-Baptiste (The arch-confraternity of the Decapitation of St. John the Baptist), who then disappeared, dissolved in favour of La Sanch. La Sanch, renovated and strengthened by new colleagues, endowed themselves that year with a church, l’Església del Carme (The Church of Carmel, adjacent to the Carmelite Convent where La Sanch of Girona were founded), whose slow construction was commenced with the chapel of "Pure Blood" and followed  by a second, that of the Saints Anne and Martha. Eight years later,  the Chapel of the "Pure Blood" was extended by a small structure built opposite which was dedicated to St. Julie. From 1720 to 1726, the ensemble would be completed by a choir or chancel, an altar and choir stalls, which were quickly joined by the foundations and walls of the chapels of "La Pietat" (The Pieta), "Sant Albert" (Saint Albert of Jerusalem ), "Sant Pere de Luxembourg ( St. Peter of Luxembourg), "Sant Cosme i Sant Damià" (the twins, Saints Cosmas and Damien) as well as that of "Sant Eloi (St Eligius). Not far from the church there also existed a cloister,  still there by the way, but in those days full of unexpected oddities and actually being used for something quite repugnant. Having in effect, the singular characteristic of  serving as both the ossuary and the common mass grave both at the same time. The cloister of the monastery was built in the manner of a horrible tomb;  littered with rotting corpses, this place was designed to facilitate the communication of the La Sanch Brotherhood with the souls of the dead, designed be a door to the world of the departed and serving as the "holy ground", where was offered all sorts of sacrifices and ritual offerings to appease the tormented souls ... The brothers walked this area in all directions uttering incantations and flagellating themselves in remission for the sins of the souls trapped in Purgatory.

This cloister, much later in time would become deserted by the penitents, who left it in the hands of  the Napoleonic authorities who settled their administrations in these premises  and since that time, all traces of the sinister purpose of this cloister have vanished.