He was required to "abjure, curse and detest" those opinions. The Inquisition, however, convinced the latter to abjure her heretical errors in 1546. Quentin was manacled, tortured repeatedly, but refused to abjure his faith. Hermenegild was imprisoned at Tarragona and repeatedly urged to abjure Catholicism. When she refused to abjure, her father condemned her to death in the arena. Those found guilty who refused to abjure their beliefs were executed. Rather than abjure his Calvinist faith he preferred to leave for Zurich, an illegal move. His friend Sapricius attempted to make him abjure his newfound faith. Although she didn't abjure Catholicism, she never gave away her "true" beliefs. Some abjure onion and garlic on the grounds that they activate certain base senses.