From the publisher’s rulebook

Who goes first in Monasterium?

dlp games English rules, 2020

The player who most recently visited a monastery starts; if no one has or no one remembers, the youngest player starts.

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Rule details

The starter takes the Chalice marker. At the end of a round, they pass it to their left neighbor for the next round.

If there’s a tie

The cited starting-player instruction does not specify a tie-break. We don’t infer one.

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