Giuseppina and Paolina Vadalà, musket in hand, move through the streets, faces glowing, hot with the most energetic love of their country.
[3][4] Messinese by birth, she was the daughter of the patriot Pietro Vadalà and wife of Orazio Nicosia, another fighter who joined the revolt against the Bourbons of Naples.
When her elder son Totò grew up, he decided to move to Naples, where he threw himself, heart and soul, into the cause of Italian unification.
According to the historical account that describes the tradition of the Messinese religious feast of Cristo Lungo in Castroreale, Giuseppina Vadalà moved to that municipality in 1854, because her husband Orazio Nicosia got a job there.
[5] On the other hand, in South America Vadalà had a procession with great funerary honours celebrated by the Italian community residing in Chile and with the presence of politicians and diplomats of the two countries.