National Garden of American Heroes

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From left to right: St. Junípero Serra, St. Kateri Tekakwitha, St. Katharine Drexel, St. John Neumann, St. Elizabeth Ann Seton.

Meet the Catholic saints included in the National Garden of American Heroes

Jul 26, 2025

By Francesca Pollio Fenton

President Donald Trump’s National Garden of American Heroes was allotted $40 million in the One Big Beautiful Bill Act. Read more

Kobe Bryant with the United States Olympic basketball team in 2012. Bryant, who died in a plane crash in 2020, will be among those included in a proposed “National Garden of American Heroes.”

Trump touts American Heroes garden that would honor Catholic figures including Kobe Bryant

Feb 21, 2025

By Jonah McKeown

Statues of dozens of prominent American Catholics, including Kobe Bryant, will be among those included in a proposed “National Garden... Read more

President Donald Trump at a White House press conference, 2019.

Catholic saints among those to be honored in garden of American heroes announced by Trump

Jan 18, 2021

By Christine Rousselle

The National Garden of American Heroes will include statues of many notable Catholic figures, including five saints and numerous people... Read more