To Iolo, a small town in the countryside of meadow, was born on 5 February 1856 Didaco Roberto Bessi, Founder of the Dominican Sisters of St. Mary of the Rosary. In 1879 the young Didaco was ordained priest just 23 years. On 20 September celebrates his first mass in Iolo, in the midst of his people. His priestly life spent entirely at Iolo, first as chaplain, spiritual and, since March 30 as Bursar then 1892 as pastor. On the evening of 8 October 1895, with the solemn entrance and the enthronement of the framework of b. v. del Rosario in the House of future nuns, begins the Dominican tertiary Institute of the Sisters of our Lady of the Rosary. The sisters shared with the poor everything they had and occupied themselves with dedication to the education of young people, catechesis, the advancement of women and to visit the sick, especially those at the end of life, to accompany them with the prayer and solace to the encounter with the Lord. The biggest test began with the death of don Didaco, in 1919, when the sisters had to experience years of apparent abandonment by God. During the war the nuns with renewed vitality you worked to ease the suffering of the weakest and the most abandoned and helped to operate a canteen in the courtyard of the convent, distributing food to refugees and destitute. After the war, the religious family began a beautiful flowering period, which led under the leadership of mother rose Catherine, 7 October 1962, obtained Pontifical recognition. Now the small Institute took on a "universal" physiognomy: in 1968 begins the adventure of mission ad gentes with early relations with India. In the year 1977 the first opens in Cochin community: the Rosary Convent. Slowly the charism of don young conquest of nationalities and different places Didaco: Poland in 1987, Ecuador in 1991, Romania in 2001. In 2009 opens the Mission in the Philippines, in Manila. Is a sign of the vitality of that "little seed" thrown in the furrows of the world more than a hundred years ago, from a Holy priest and farsighted, that nothing was confident the faithfulness of God and the power of the word. The House of Naples, operated by the Dominican Sisters of St. Mary of the Rosary, is open all year round. Retired service offers to university students out of the Office (women only) with 18 beds.