Editing Saunders Lewis (section)

==Later life and death==
In 1970, Lewis was nominated for the [[Nobel Prize in Literature]]. 

In March 1983, at the age of 89, Saunders Lewis was made an honorary Doctor of Letters of the University of Wales at a ceremony specially conducted at his home in [[Penarth]]. The ''[[Catholic Herald]]'', reporting the honour, noted that in the previous year Lewis had made a plea for the restoration to the [[Catholic Church in Wales]] of the [[Tridentine Mass]] in [[Ecclesiastical Latin]], rather than the [[Mass of Paul VI]] in the "foreign language of English", which he pointed out was "a later arrival".<ref>The Catholic Herald 4 March 1983</ref>

Lewis died at St Winifred's Hospital in [[Cardiff]], on 1 September 1985.<ref> [https://biography.wales/article/s10-LEWI-SAU-1893 LEWIS, JOHN SAUNDERS (1893-1985)], [[Dictionary of Welsh Biography]].</ref> Lewis' final request for a [[Tridentine Mass|Tridentine]] [[Requiem Mass]] in Ecclesiastical Latin was denied by Bishop [[Daniel Mullins]], who personally offered the [[Mass of Paul VI]] instead.<ref> [[Charles A. Coulombe]], ''A Monarchist and a Catholic: John Saunders Lewis(1893-1985)'', ''[[Mass of the Ages Magazine]]'', Summer 2024. Published by the [[Latin Mass Society of England and Wales]], pp. 44-45.</ref> Following the [[Funeral Mass]], Lewis was buried in the same grave as his wife Margaret in St. Joseph's Roman Catholic cemetery in [[Penarth]]. Lewis's medal as a [[Knight Commander]] of the [[Order of St Gregory]], to which he had been appointed by [[Pope Paul VI]], was laid on Lewis' casket during the funeral ceremony and then buried with him.<ref> [https://biography.wales/article/s10-LEWI-SAU-1893 LEWIS, JOHN SAUNDERS (1893-1985)], [[Dictionary of Welsh Biography]].</ref>