Die recht kirchenfeindliche Zivilverwaltung (Piemont stand damals unter napoleonischer Herrschaft) versuchte, die Begeisterung zu bremsen, die diese wunderbare Entdeckung bei der Genueser Bevölkerung hervorrief. ###>The civil authority, which was fairly anti-clerical (the Piedmont was under Napoleon's control at that time) made every effort to temper the enthusiasm that this marvelous discovery aroused in the Genoese population.