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The first Catholic wooden church in Livani was built in 1678 at the expense of the Polish magnate Leonard Pozzi, who had bought Livani from John de Ungern in 1677. In 1685, Bishop M. Poplavskis consecrated it in honor of the Holy Archangel Michael. In Livani, the congregation already had its own dean, which was rare in Latgale congregations at that time. In 1758, with the support of congregation, a new wooden church was built on the site of the current congregation house. This church was consecrated by the auxiliary bishop of Mogilev, Janis Benislavskis. After the consecration of this church, secular priests began to serve the congregation, because the congregation had large land properties donated by Leonard Pozzi. In 1828, the dean of Livani, Ambrozevičs Caragrodas, built a stone chapel in honor of St. Mary Magdalene in the Gasporu village of the Jersika manor, which in 1930 became the church for the Magdalene congregation. The existing three-bay stone church was built in 1861. In 1936, a new organ was installed and the painting by the artist Shenberg "St. John the Baptist" and 14 paintings of the Way of the Cross.