Possible Clues:

• Appearing like figs in fridges, strange to say?
• Askew
• To everyone's surprise
• In a bizarre way
• Inexplicably
• 'You'd never have guessed, but ...'
• Unusually pious, not hard to embrace cleric
• Oliphant's and Simon's couples thus suited
• 'Strange to tell, ...'
• Strangely divine, holy but not at first outwardly