His four brothers were mob bosses, but he had chosen the path of faith: Father Louis Gigante, a Catholic priest central to the rebuilding of the South Bronx, has died at age 90 after a life that seems straight out of a movie script.
Father Louis bore a heavy last name for a priest. Vincent, one of his brothers known as ‘Chin,’ roamed the streets of the Village in his slippers and robe pretending to be crazy to avoid jail time: he had actually been for years at the head of the Genovese clan, the most powerful Cosa Nostra boss after John Gotti.
