Aimery Picaud (supposed author of the Liber Sancti Jacobi) did not practise what he preached!
He went on pilgrimage horseback, with a large entrouage, and frequently complained about the food, the accommodation and the people. His descriptions of some the people he encountered was crude, especially those in Navarra who he described as reminiscent of dogs, " a barbarous people, different from all other peoples in customs and in race, malignant, dark in colour, ugly of face, debauched, perverse, skilled in all forms of violence, fierce and savage, cruel and quarrelsome, incapable of any good impulses, past masters of all vices and iniquities. .. men show their private parts to women and women to men. They fornicate shamelessly with their beasts .." etc etc...
This said of God-fearing, Christian people who he also describes as " .. regular in their payment of tithes and accustomed to making offerings at the altar. Every day when a Navarrese goes to church he makes an offering to God of bread, wine, corn or some other substance."
And, he goes on to say:
"It is commonly said that they are descended from the Scots for they resemble them in custom and in appearance. Julius Caesar is said to have sent three peoples - Nubians, Scots and the tailed men of Cornwall - into Spain to make war on the peoples of Spain who refused to pay him tribute. ... Having killed all the men, they took their wives by violence and had children with them, who later became known as the Navarrese - the name being interpreted as non versus ('not true') , that is, not engendered of pure race or legitimate stock.
Not much evidence of Chsritian charity or piety from old AP!