Lizzie Gordon

Mary Elizabeth "Lizzie" Gannon (May 16, 1865 – after 1930) was an American hoaxer who as a teenager claimed to be a mystic and stigmatic haunted by visions of the Blessed Virgin Mary, saints, and her dead brother. She had an older brother, James F. Gannon, and older sister, Margaret Ann "Annie" Gannon. Her brother, who was listed as "insane" in the 1870 census, died of tuberculosis in 1874, aged 16. In the 1880 census, Lizzie was listed as being disabled by "hysteria."

'Angels' lawsuit In 1881, Gannon's parents sued Fr. John H. Fleming and Archbishop John Joseph Williams for $5,000 in Suffolk Superior Court.