The small church was founded by Jan Firlej and Gertruda née Opalińska Firlej in the years 1608–09; (the Protestant Firlej family converted back to Catholicism and as neophytes, they founded a church together with a shelter for the poor and elderly). The church was built by famous Lublin architect of Italian origin, Piotr Durie. For several years, he was also a Markuszów resident, as he purchased a magnificent house with a manorial farm and a garden, located at Zamkowa Street at the corner of the parish church near the pond, from Marcin Zając, and Wojciech Kapusta and Mikołaj Gil were his neighbours. He then moved to Lublin where he died in 1623 during the plague epidemic. Adjacent to the church are the bell tower dating from the early 17^th century and the fence and a roadside shrine featuring the Lewart Coat of Arms of the Firlej family dating from 1609.