Maria Pilar Bruguera Sábat

Sister Maria Pilar Bruguera Sábat (Girona, 1906 – Vic, 1994) was a Spanish Catalan Roman Catholic nun and physician. Even after she graduated from the faculty of medicine of the University of Barcelona in 1934, she continued her religious career as a Sister of the Carmelite Charity. She exercised her profession mainly in the convent, Monestir de Carmelites Descalces de Terrassa. Pilar was the youngest of six siblings, all girls, among whom there were two doctors (the other being Carme Bruguera Sala) and three teachers.

Biography Pilar was the sixth daughter of attorney Martí Bruguera Sastre, originally from Regencós and Teobalda Sàbat, born in Torrent, Baix Empordà. The family lived on the second floor of Carrer Progrés, number 21, in Girona.

Pilar maintained her association with the College of Doctors of Barcelona all her life but it is not recorded that she practiced the profession. It is possible that she did it as a doctor in the convent. In 1961, she was registered as a member and religious,