Why is Peter the patron saint of saints?

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Acording to Acts of the Apostles, Peter could perform the same miracles as Jesus had done, even raising Tabitha from the dead. On this account, Peter was far from a normal or ordinary saint. One view of Acts would be that it is an extreme form of hagiography in the way it portrays Peter as being able to perform miracles at will. New Testament scholars say that Acts of the Apostles is a book of supposed miracles rather than of facts, with Uta Ranke-Heinemann (Putting Away Childish Things) going as far as to say that the whole of Acts is a simply a work of Propaganda. If Saint Peter did not perform any miracles at all, this brings him back to the ranks of ordinary saints. Of course, miracles are often attributed to the early saints, but they are never imagined as performing miracles with the astonishing ease that Peter displays in Acts of the Apostles.