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

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Statues of dozens of prominent American Catholics — including numerous saints and popular figures such as the late basketball star Kobe Bryant — will be among those included in a proposed “National Garden of American Heroes,” a project President Donald Trump unveiled during his first term and revived following his inauguration last month.

During a Black History Month gathering at the White House on Thursday, Trump promised to honor a number of African American figures in the proposed garden, the final site for which is being picked “now,” he said. Trump said the garden will “honor hundreds of our greatest Americans to ever live.”

The list of honorees, first announced during Trump’s previous term, includes several Catholic saints: St. Junípero Serra, St. John Neumann, St. Katharine Drexel, St. Elizabeth Ann Seton, and St. Kateri Tekakwitha, as well as several Catholics whose sainthood causes are ongoing: Venerable Fulton Sheen, Venerable Augustus Tolton, and Servant of God Dorothy Day.

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