The second daughter of no less than 13 siblings, she has played the role of queen of the stove, learning to cook for her family from an early age. For a short time she was entrusted to the Carmelite nuns of Stella Maris College in Maiori, until the terrible flood that swept away houses and buildings, causing hundreds of deaths and missing . It was a tragic night on October 25, 1954, but fortunately the complex that housed hundreds of children including Erminia was unscathed. And so Dad Domenico, transfixed, rushed to Maiori to bring her back home-all gripped with great fright, but safe and sound-to be permanently a mother in the family that continued to grow.
