Vassiliki was assigned to create the gift offered to Fidel Castro from the Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew, as an expression of gratitude for the first Orthodox temple built in Havana (photos: His All-Holiness Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew with Fidel Castro peering into Vassiliki's artwork / Vassiliki with the Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew, his Eminence Metropolitan Archbishop Athenagoras of Central America and Dr Eusebio Leal Spengler, director of the restoration program of Old Havana and Ambassador of Good Will of the United Nations).
