Quoting canon 2368 §1 of the 1917 Code of Canon Law, then in force, "Crimen sollicitationis", 61 indicated the penalties that could be imposed after conviction. These penalties, such as suspension "a divinis", deprivation of an office or rank, and reduction to the lay state, were of public character, even if the trial itself had been conducted with all due secrecy. The same part of the document laid down that, in addition to those penalties, penances should be imposed on guilty priests, and those in danger of repeating their crime should be subjected to particular vigilance (64).